Supporting children's social communication skills through interactive narratives with virtual characters.
Mary Ellen FosterKaterina AvramidesSara BernardiniJingying ChenChristopher FrauenbergerOliver LemonKaska Porayska-PomstaPublished in: ACM Multimedia (2010)
Keyphrases
- virtual characters
- communication skills
- serious games
- social interaction
- computer professionals
- embodied conversational agents
- crowd simulation
- virtual environment
- educational games
- computer games
- synthetic characters
- video games
- learning processes
- social networks
- learning environment
- social behavior
- social psychology
- intelligent tutoring
- design principles
- case study
- virtual humans
- cognitive architecture
- learning tools
- virtual reality
- social media
- learning scenarios
- computer graphics
- decision making