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Computers are social actors

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CHI '94: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 1994
483 pages
ISBN:0897916506
DOI:10.1145/191666
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  1. agents
  2. anthropomorphism
  3. gender
  4. social psychology
  5. speech
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CHI94: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems
April 24 - 28, 1994
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