Designing and evaluating interactive agents as social skills tutors for children with autism spectrum disorder

Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 23-49

  Milne, Marissa ^a   Luerssen, Martin ^a   Lewis, Trent ^a   Leibbrandt, Richard ^a   Powers, David ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-617-6.ch002     Document Type: Chapter

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