Modeling the Personal Space of virtual agents for behavior simulation

2009 International Conference on CyberWorlds, CW '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 364-370

  Amaoka, Toshitaka ^a   Laga, Hamid ^b   Nakajima, Masayuki ^b  

^a MEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomous virtual agents; Proxemics; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR SIMULATION; BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS; FACE ORIENTATION; MULTI-AGENT PLATFORMS; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS; PERSONAL SPACES; VIRTUAL AGENT; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATORS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 72349090177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CW.2009.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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