The impact of avatar realism and eye gaze control on perceived quality of communication in a shared immersive virtual environment

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 529-536

  Garau, Maia ^a   Slater, Mel ^a   Vinayagamoorthy, Vinoba ^a   Brogni, Andrea ^a   Steed, Anthony ^a   Sasse, M Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avatars; Behavioral realism; Copresence; Eye gaze; Immersive virtual environments; Mediated communication; Photo realism; Social presence; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; EYE CONTROLLED DEVICES; EYE MOVEMENTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SURVEYS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMMUNICATION QUALITY; AVATARS; BEHAVIORAL REALISM; CO-PRESENCE; EYE-GAZE; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; PHOTO-REALISM; SOCIAL PRESENCE;

VIRTUAL REALITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0038375487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/642611.642703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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