The responses of people to virtual humans in an immersive virtual environment

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 104-116

  Garau, Maia ^a   Slater, Mel ^a   Pertaub, David Paul ^a   Razzaque, Sharif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY (EDA); HEART RATE; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA REDUCTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 18144406561     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/1054746053890242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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