Virtual research assistants: Replacing human interviewers by automated avatars in virtual worlds
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0747-5632/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.01.004 q Part of this research has been presented at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15–17, 2011 (Friedman, Hasler, Brovman, & Tuchman, 2011). ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +972 54 524 2926; fax: +972 9 952 7650. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (B.S. Hasler), [email protected] (P. Tuchman), [email protected] (D. Friedman). 1 Tel.: +972 52 630 4550; fax: +972 9 952 7650. 2 Tel.: +972 9 952 7654; fax: +972 9 952 7650. 3 http://secondlife.com. Béatrice S. Hasler ⇑, Peleg Tuchman , Doron Friedman 2
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Computers in Human Behavior
دوره 29 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013