Social facilitation effects of virtual humans

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1054-1060

  Park, Sung ^a,b   Catrambone, Richard ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

MODULAR ARITHMETIC; VIRTUAL HUMAN CONDITION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GEORGIA; HUMANS; SOCIAL FACILITATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 36749049744     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X249910     Document Type: Article

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