A second chance to make a first impression? how appearance and nonverbal behavior affect perceived warmth and competence of virtual agents over time

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

Volumn 7502 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 126-138

  Bergmann, Kirsten ^a   Eyssel, Friederike ^a   Kopp, Stefan ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

agent appearance; competence; Evaluation; nonverbal behavior; warmth

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

AGENT APPEARANCE; COMPETENCE; EVALUATION; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; WARMTH;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 84867544244     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33197-8_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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