Embodied interaction in social virtual environments

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 181-188

  Cuddihy, Elisabeth ^a   Walters, Deborah ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Interactivity models; Presence; User interface

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; ONLINE CONFERENCING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0034592662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/351006.351039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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