Rachel: Design of an emotionally targeted interactive agent for children with autism

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mower, Emily ^a   Black, Matthew P ^a   Flores, Elisa ^a   Williams, Marian ^b   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

audio video recording; autism; children's speech; Embodied conversational agent; multimodal interface

Indexed keywords

AUDIO-VIDEO RECORDING; AUTISM; CHILDREN'S SPEECH; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; MULTI-MODAL INTERFACES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES; VIDEO RECORDING;

DISEASES;

EID: 80155127424     PISSN: 19457871     EISSN: 1945788X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICME.2011.6011990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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