How people talk with robots: Designing dialogue to reduce user uncertainty

AI Magazine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 31-38

  Fischer, Kerstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS;

AFFORDANCES; DIALOGUE DESIGN; ROBOT APPEARANCE; USER EXPECTATIONS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 84858410981     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v32i4.2377     Document Type: Article

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