Acceptance and usability of a relational agent interface by urban older adults

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1212-1215

  Bickmore, Timothy W ^a   Caruso, Lisa ^a   Clough Gorr, Kerri ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied conversational agent; Health; Longitudinal study; Older adult; Relational agent; Social agent

Indexed keywords

EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OLDER ADULTS; RELATIONAL AGENTS; SOCIAL AGENTS;

HEALTH; HUMAN ENGINEERING; TOUCH SCREENS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 84869121005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1056879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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