Does the contingency of agents' nonverbal feedback affect users' social anxiety?

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 119-126

  Kang, Sin Hwa ^a   Gratch, Jonathan ^b   Wang, Ning ^b   Watt, James H ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Institute for Creative Technologies University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Contingency of nonverbal feedback; Evaluation; Rapport; Social anxiety; Virtual humans

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EVALUATION; NONVERBAL FEEDBACK; RAPPORT; SOCIAL ANXIETIES; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84899923181     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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