Glances, glares, and glowering: How should a virtual human express emotion through gaze?

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-69

  Lance, Brent ^a   Marsella, Stacy ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Expression; Gaze; Nonverbal behavior; Posture; Procedural animation; Virtual agent; Virtual human

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449150156     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-009-9097-6     Document Type: Article

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