A 'companion' ECA with planning and activity modelling

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1257-1260

  Cavazza, Marc ^a   Smith, Cameron ^a   Charlton, Daniel ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Turunen, Markku ^b   Hakulinen, Jaakko ^b  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Assistive systems; Embodied conversational agents; Human computer dialogue; Planning

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PLANNING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACTIVITY MODELING; ACTIVITY MODELLING; ASSISTIVE SYSTEM; BACK-GROUND KNOWLEDGE; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; HIERARCHICAL TASK NETWORKS; HUMAN-COMPUTER DIALOGUES; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84899950713     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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