Embodied conversational agents : extending the persona metaphor to virtual retail applications

Engineering computer interfaces to communicate through the modality of speech serves to bridge the communicative gap between computers and their human users. Adding non-verbal performances to these spoken language interfaces, through the creation of embodied conversational agents, initiates dialogue...

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Main Author: McBreen, Helen
Published: University of Edinburgh 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.657518