Guest editorial: Introduction to the special issue on virtual reality environments in behavioral sciences

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3 SPEC., 2002, Pages 193-197

  Riva, Giuseppe ^a   Wiederhold, Brenda K ^b  

^a ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^b VIRTUAL REALITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral sciences; Clinical psychology; Virtual reality (VR)

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPHY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY;

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; SOFTWARE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0036729603     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2002.802369     Document Type: Editorial

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