Transfer effects on communication and collision avoidance behavior from playing a three-dimensional auditory game based on a virtual auditory display

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 868-874

  Honda, Akio ^a   Shibata, Hiroshi ^b   Gyoba, Jiro ^c   Iwaya, Yukio ^c   Suzuki, Yôiti ^c  

^a IWAKI MEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory skills; Collision avoidance; Face contact; Transfer effects; Virtual auditory display

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AUDITORY SKILLS; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIORS; COMMUNICATION TASKS; CONTROL GROUPS; DAILY LIVES; FACE CONTACT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SUBJECTIVE RATINGS; TENSION LEVELS; TRAINING TOOLS; TRANSFER EFFECTS; VIRTUAL AUDITORY DISPLAY;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 61449208089     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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