Designing avatars

Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, DIMEA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 232-239

  Boberg, Marion ^a   Piippo, Petri ^a   Ollila, Elina ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Avatars; Design; Massively multi player online games; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AVATARS; DESIGN APPLICATIONS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN PROJECTS; FOCUS GROUPS; MASSIVELY MULTI-PLAYER ONLINE GAMES; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL NETWORKINGS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS; WEB SITES;

DESIGN;

EID: 62849104568     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1413634.1413679     Document Type: Conference Paper

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