Empathy with computer game characters: A cognitive neuroscience perspective

AISB'05 Convention:Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Virtual Social Agents: Social Presence Cues for Virtual Humanoids Empathic Interaction with Synthetic Characters Mind Minding Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 73-79

  Morrison, India ^a   Ziemke, Tom ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MECHANISMS; CHARACTER IDENTIFICATION; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES; COMPUTER GAME; DESIGN SPACES; EMOTIONAL STATE; HUMAN COGNITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; HUMAN PLAYERS; NEURAL PROCESS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUOMOTORS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 77950235430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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