Avatar culture: Cross-cultural evaluations of avatar facial expressions

AI and Society

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-250

  Koda, Tomoko ^a   Ishida, Toru ^b   Rehm, Matthias ^c   André, Elisabeth ^c  

^a OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-CULTURAL EVALUATION; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; HUMAN FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; ON-LINE COMMUNICATION; PHYSICAL PROXIMITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

GESTURE RECOGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 70149119657     PISSN: 09515666     EISSN: 14355655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00146-009-0214-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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