The validity of a virtual human experience for interpersonal skills education

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1049-1058

  Johnsen, Kyle ^a   Raij, Andrew ^a   Stevens, Amy ^b   Lind, D Scott ^c   Lok, Benjamin ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Medicine; Multimodal interfaces; Validation; Virtual characters; Virtual humans; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; STUDENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MULTIMODAL INTERFACES; VIRTUAL CHARACTERS; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 35348853999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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