Where to Look? Automating Attending Behaviors of Virtual Human Characters

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 9-23

  Chopra Khullar, Sonu ^a   Badler, Norman I ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cognitive modeling; Synthetic agents; Virtual humans; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NASA DISCIPLINE SPACE HUMAN FACTORS; NON-NASA CENTER; ROBOTICS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

NASA DISCIPLINE SPACE HUMAN FACTORS; NON-NASA CENTER;

ATTENTION; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; ROBOTICS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0041786664     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010010528443     Document Type: Article

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