Designing a non-verbal language for expressive avatars

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 93-101

  Salem, Ben ^a,b   Earle, Nic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avatars; CVE; Facial Expressions; Hand Gestures; Social Communication

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GESTURE RECOGNITION; USER INTERFACES;

EXPRESSIVE AVATARS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0034593038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/351006.351019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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