Shall We Talk? Conversing With Humans and Robots

Information Society

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 257-264

  Baron, Naomi S ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

conversation; humans; language; social robots; speech; writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929321457     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2015.1020211     Document Type: Article

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