From Brows to Trust: Evaluating Embodied Conversational AgentsPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 140202729X
Paperback: 352 pages
Data: Jan 2005
Format: PDF
Description: Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are autonomous software entities with human-like appearance and communication skills. These agents can take on a number of different roles, for example, as an assistant, tutor, information provider, or customer service agent. They may also simply represent or entertain a user.

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Condor: To the Brink and Back--The Life and Times of One Giant BirdPublisher: HarperCollins
Language: English
ISBN: 0060088621
Paperback: 272 pages
Data: Feb 2006
Format: PDF
Description: The California condor has been described as a bird “with one wing in the grave.” Flying on wings nearly ten feet wide from tip to tip, these birds thrived on the carcasses of animals like woolly mammoths. Then, as humans began dramatically reshaping North America,

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