Ada and grace: Direct interaction with museum visitors

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

Volumn 7502 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 245-251

  Traum, David ^a   Aggarwal, Priti ^a   Artstein, Ron ^a   Foutz, Susan ^c   Gerten, Jillian ^a   Katsamanis, Athanasios ^b   Leuski, Anton ^a   Noren, Dan ^a   Swartout, William ^a  

^a USC ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Institute for Learning Innovation   (United States)

Author keywords

informal science education; natural language interaction; STEM; virtual human applications; virtual museum guides

Indexed keywords

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); MUSEUMS; STEM (SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS);

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGIES; DIRECT INTERACTIONS; INFORMAL SCIENCE EDUCATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERACTION; POSITIVE ATTITUDE; VIRTUAL GUIDES; VIRTUAL HUMAN APPLICATIONS; VIRTUAL MUSEUM GUIDES;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 84867554330     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33197-8_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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