Animating gaze shifts for virtual characters based on head movement propensity

2nd International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 11-18

  Peters, Christopher ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MODELS; CONNECTED COMPONENT; GAZE CONTROL; GAZE SHIFTS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; LEARNING OUTCOME; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; SERIOUS GAMES; TARGET LOCATION; VIRTUAL CHARACTER; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

ANIMATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 77952982068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2010.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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