The comforting presence of relational agents

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 550-555

  Bickmore, Timothy ^a   Schulman, Daniel ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective computing; Caring; Comforting; Embodied conversational agent; Emotion; Relational agent; Social interface

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING; CARING; COMFORTING; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; EMOTION; RELATIONAL AGENTS; SOCIAL INTERFACES;

HEALTH CARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84869115245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125451.1125568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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