Design and evaluation of embodied conversational agents for educational and advisory software

Handbook of Conversation Design for Instructional Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 343-362

  André, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 84898209394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-597-9.ch020     Document Type: Chapter

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