Promoting motivation with virtual agents and avatars: Role of visual presence and appearance

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1535, 2009, Pages 3559-3565

  Baylor, Amy L ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appearance; Avatars; Motivation; Persuasion; Virtual agents; Visual presence

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HOMINID; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 73549100261     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0148     Document Type: Review

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