Adaptive expressiveness - Virtual conversational agents that can align to their interaction partner

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 91-98

  Buschmeier, Hendrik ^a   Bergmann, Kirsten ^a   Kopp, Stefan ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interactive alignment; Modelling natural language; Multimodal Interaction; User adaptated interaction; Verbal and non verbal expressiveness

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; LINGUISTICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; MULTI-MODAL INTERACTIONS; MULTIMODAL BEHAVIOUR; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SOCIAL FUNCTION; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE; USER-ADAPTATED INTERACTION; VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL EXPRESSIVENESS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84899430246     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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