Small Talk and Conversational Storytelling In Embodied Conversational Interface Agents

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-99-01, Issue , 1999, Pages 87-92

  Bickmore, T ^a   Cassell, J ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

APPLICATIONS DOMAINS; CONVERSATIONAL INTERFACE; HUMAN USERS; HUMANOID BODY; INPUT UNDERSTANDING; INPUT-OUTPUT; INTERFACE AGENT; MULTIMODAL INPUTS; REAL- TIME; TASK-ORIENTED;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 85169298316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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