Applying artificial intelligence to virtual reality: intelligent virtual environments

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-32

  Luck, Michael ^a   Aylett, Ruth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; SYNTHETIC AGENTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0033993135     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/088395100117142     Document Type: Article

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