Cicero - Towards a multimodal virtual audience platform for public speaking training

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

Volumn 8108 LNAI, Issue , 2013, Pages 116-128

  Batrinca, Ligia ^a   Stratou, Giota ^b   Shapiro, Ari ^b   Morency, Louis Philippe ^b   Scherer, Stefan ^b  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral Modification; Multimodal Perception; Public Speaking; Training; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; MULTIMODAL PERCEPTION; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; PUBLIC SPEAKING; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (SVR); TRAINING PLATFORM;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; PERSONNEL TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 84883325504     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40415-3_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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