Ethnicity and sense of presence in a virtual environment: Arab women - A case in point

2009 Virtual Rehabilitation International Conference, VR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 78-82

  Almog, Idan ^a   Wallach, Helene S ^a   Safir, Marilyn P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Culture; Ethnicity; Presence; Virtual reality; Virtual reality environments

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; ETHNICITY; PRESENCE; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL-REALITY ENVIRONMENT;

PATIENT REHABILITATION; WINDOWS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 70449122003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICVR.2009.5174209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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