Building virtual humans with back stories: Training interpersonal communication skills in medical students

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8637 LNAI, Issue , 2014, Pages 144-153

  Cordar, Andrew ^a   Borish, Michael ^a   Foster, Adriana ^b   Lok, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

back story; cutscenes; empathy; virtual humans

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

BACK STORY; CUTSCENES; EMPATHY; INTER-PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS; INTERPERSONAL SKILLS; MEDICAL STUDENTS; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84906509830     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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