Getting acquainted in second life: Human agent interactions in virtual environments

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 36-43

  Pallay, Christian ^a   Rehm, Matthias ^a   Kurdyukova, Ekaterina ^a  

^a Faculty of Applied Informatics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Second life; Social modeling; Virtual agents

Indexed keywords

HUMAN AGENT INTERACTIONS; RULE SET; SECOND LIFE; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL MODELING; VIRTUAL AGENT; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77749298969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1690388.1690395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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