Social responses to virtual humans: Implications for future interface design

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1561-1570

  Zanbaka, Catherine Amine ^a   Ulinski, Amy Catherine ^a   Goolkasian, Paula ^b   Hodges, Larry F ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatars; Experimental studies; Human computer interaction; Interface agents; Social facilitation and inhibition; Social influence; Social psychology; Virtual humans

Indexed keywords

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; USER INTERFACES;

INTERFACE AGENTS; SOCIAL FACILITATION; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 35348890319     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240861     Document Type: Conference Paper

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