Parasocial consensus sampling: Combining multiple perspectives to learn virtual human behavior

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1265-1272

  Huang, Lixing ^a   Morency, Louis Philippe ^a   Gratch, Jonathan ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Backchannel feedback; Parasocial; Rapport; Virtual humans

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BACK CHANNELS; BACKCHANNEL FEEDBACK; FACE-TO-FACE SITUATION; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; INTERACTION BEHAVIOR; LEARN+; MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES; PARASOCIAL; RAPPORT; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84899464665     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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