The effects of virtual characters on audiences' movie experience

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 218-229

  Lin, Tao ^a   Morishima, Shigeo ^b   Maejima, Akinobu ^b   Tang, Ningjiu ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Physiological evaluation; User experience; Virtual character

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MOTION PICTURES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER EXPERIENCE;

3D VIRTUAL CHARACTERS; CHANGING TRENDS; EMOTIONAL REACTIONS; EVALUATION RESULTS; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGICAL EVALUATION; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77549088623     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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