Animated Agent Immediacy and News Services with Handheld Computers.
The present study considers the design and implementation of immediacy behaviors for an animated agent and the influence of such an agent on viewers. Immediacy, a widely studied construct in human communication research, is defined as the verbal and nonverbal communication behaviors that enhance phy...
| Publicado en: | Communication Quarterly Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 78 - 93 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Winter2002
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