Virtual human personality masks: A human computation approach to modeling verbal personalities in virtual humans

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

Volumn 7502 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 146-152

  Krishnan, Vaishnavi ^a   Foster, Adriana ^b   Kopper, Regis ^a   Lok, Benjamin ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversational Agents; Human Computation; Personalities; Verbosity; Virtual Humans; Virtual Patients

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY;

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; HUMAN COMPUTATION; PERSONALITIES; VERBOSITY; VIRTUAL HUMANS; VIRTUAL PATIENTS;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 84867512069     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33197-8_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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