Effects of avatar's blinking animation on person impressions

Proceedings - Graphics Interface

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 169-176

  Takashima, Kazuki ^a   Omori, Yasuko ^b   Yoshimoto, Yoshiharu ^c   Itoh, Yuich ^a   Kitamura, Yoshifumi ^a   Kishino, Fumio ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JIN AI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blinking; Character; Computer mediated communication; Facial animation; Graphics; Psychology

Indexed keywords

BLINKING; CHARACTER; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; FACIAL ANIMATION; GRAPHICS; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; INFORMATION THEORY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SWITCHING;

ANIMATION;

EID: 63549114401     PISSN: 07135424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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