Crafting the illusion of meaning: Template-based specification of embodied conversational behavior

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 11-16

  Stone, M ^a   DeCarlo, D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Art; Cognitive science; Computer science; Displays; Face; Humans; Natural languages; Prototypes; Usability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISPLAY DEVICES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ART; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; FACE; HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROTOTYPES; USABILITY;

ANIMATION;

EID: 84943381184     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CASA.2003.1199298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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