Simcoach an online intelligent virtual human agent system for breaking down barriers to care for service members and veterans

Healing War Trauma: A Handbook of Creative Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 238-252

  Rizzo, Albert ^a   Forbell, Eric ^b   Lange, Belinda ^b   Galen Buckwalter, J ^b   Williams, Josh ^c   Sagae, Kenji ^b,d   Traum, David ^e  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b USC s ICT   (United States)

^c Museum of Science Boston s InterFaces   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Faculty in Computer Science at USC   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203153819     Document Type: Chapter

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