The role of posture in the communication of affect in an immersive virtual environment

Proceedings - VRCIA 2006: ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and its Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 229-236

  Vinayagamoorthy, Vinoba ^a   Brogni, Andrea ^a   Steed, Anthony ^a   Slater, Mel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Affect; Co presence; Facial expression; Immersive virtual environments; Posture; Presence; Virtual characters

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL CUES; CO-PRESENCE; EMOTIONAL STATE; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; IMMERSIVE; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL CHARACTER; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33748111250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1128923.1128961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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