The Effect of the Agency and Anthropomorphism on users' Sense of Telepresence, Copresence, and Social Presence in Virtual Environments

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 481-494

  Nowak, Kristine L ^a   Biocca, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHISM; COMPUTER GAMES;

ANIMATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); ONLINE SYSTEMS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0942279051     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/105474603322761289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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