Can embodied conversational agents induce empathy in users?

AISB'05 Convention:Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Virtual Social Agents: Social Presence Cues for Virtual Humanoids Empathic Interaction with Synthetic Characters Mind Minding Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 65-72

  De Rosis, Fiorella ^a   Cavalluzzi, Addolorata ^a   Mazzotta, Irene ^a   Novielli, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; WIZARD OF OZ;

ANIMALS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84858962969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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