A virtual laboratory for studying long-term relationships between humans and virtual agents

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 220-227

  Bickmore, Timothy ^a   Schulman, Daniel ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; EXPERIMENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TOOLS;

AGENT INTERACTION; COMPUTER AGENTS; LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OUTCOME MEASURES; SYSTEM RECONFIGURATION; USER ENGAGEMENT; VIRTUAL LABORATORIES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84899799066     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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