Virtual Humans: A New Toolkit for Cognitive Science Research

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 41-42

  Gratch, Jonathan ^a   Hartholt, Arno ^a   Dehghani, Morteza ^a   Marsella, Stacy ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

embodied cognition; social cognition; virtual confederates; Virtual humans

Indexed keywords

EID: 85139466932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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