Cultural study on speech duration and perception of virtual agent's nodding

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

Volumn 7502 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 404-411

  Koda, Tomoko ^a   Kishi, Haruka ^a   Hamamoto, Takanori ^a   Suzuki, Yota ^a  

^a OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

backchannel; cross culture; nod; speech; virtual agents

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; SPEECH;

BACK CHANNELS; CROSS CULTURE; CULTURAL SETTINGS; CULTURAL STUDIES; HUMAN-HUMAN COMMUNICATION; JAPANESE SPEECH; SPEECH DURATION; VIRTUAL AGENT;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 84867522466     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33197-8_41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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