Embodied Conversational Agents

by Justine Cassell and Joseph Sullivan

This book describes research in all aspects of the design, implementation, and evaluation of embodied conversational agents as well as details of specific working systems. Embodied conversational agents are computer-generated cartoonlike characters that demonstrate many of the same properties as humans in face-to-face conversation, including the ability to produce and respond to verbal and nonverbal communication. They constitute a type of (a) multimodal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262032783
• ISBN13: 9780262032780
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher