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The persona effect: affective impact of animated pedagogical agents

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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pages: 359 - 366

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-802-9

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James C. Lester	Department of computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Sharolyn A. Converse	Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Susan E. Kahler	Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
S. Todd Barlow	Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Brian A. Stone	Department of computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Ravinder S. Bhogal	London Institute, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7, UK

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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