Cross-cultural evaluations of avatar facial expressions designed by western designers

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5208 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 245-252

  Koda, Tomoko ^a   Rehm, Matthias ^b   André, Elisabeth ^b  

^a OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avatar; Character; Cross culture; Facial expression; Network communication

Indexed keywords

GESTURE RECOGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

AVATAR; CHARACTER; CROSS-CULTURE; CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; HUMAN FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NETWORK COMMUNICATION; PHYSICAL PROXIMITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 52149116942     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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