Ghosts in the Machine: Personalities for Socially Adroit Software Agents

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-97-02, Issue , 1997, Pages 31-36

  Dryer, D Christopher ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Design rationale; Guides; Personality; Social Interface; Theory; Wizards

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

DESIGN RATIONALE; GUIDE; HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MOST LIKELY; PERSONALITY; RECENT RESEARCHES; SOCIAL INTERFACES; SOCIAL ROLES; THEORY; WIZARD;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 85067625733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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