Backchannels: Quantity, type and timing matters

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6895 LNAI, Issue , 2011, Pages 228-239

  Poppe, Ronald ^a   Truong, Khiet P ^a   Heylen, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC GENERATION; BACK CHANNELS; DESIGN OF ALGORITHMS; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 80053193202     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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