Robin, an empathic virtual buddy for social support
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In order to understand how Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) can be endowed with the emotional skills to provide social support to users, we developed Robin, an empathic virtual buddy for victims of cyberbullying.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013