How is believability of a virtual agent related to warmth, competence, personification, and embodiment?

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 431-448

  Demeure, Virginie ^a   Niewiadomski, Radosław ^b   Pelachaud, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE RESPONSE; VIRTUAL AGENT;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84857292551     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: 15313263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/PRES_a_00065     Document Type: Article

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