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Meeting #7 and Meeting #8 (2022/12/02 and 2023/01/06)

Meetings #7 and #8 of the Virtual Agent Lab for December 2022 and January 2023 are ASYNCHRONOUS.

Discussion is held on the topic of the public's view of virtual agents. The asynchronous discussion is held via the Virtual Agent Lab blog on the Athabascaa University Landing social platform...  https://landing.athabascau.ca/groups/profile/12483512/virtual-agent-lab/tab/12563320

Video sources and question prompts are used to start these discussion  - join us .

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