Expressing ethnicity through behaviors of a robot character

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 357-364

  Makatchev, Maxim ^a   Simmons, Reid ^a   Sakr, Majd ^b   Ziadee, Micheline ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

ethnicity; homophily; human robot dialogue

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; HOMOPHILY; HUMAN USERS; HUMAN-ROBOT DIALOGUE; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL AGENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84875745345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21672148     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HRI.2013.6483610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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