The persuasive power of virtual reality: Effects of simulated human distress on attitudes towards fire safety

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6137 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 58-69

  Chittaro, Luca ^a   Zangrando, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

aversive feedback; distress; emotions; negative feedback; negatively framed experiences; personal fire safety; suffering; virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE CHANGE; DAMAGING EFFECTS; EMERGENCY SITUATION; EMOTIONS; FIRE SAFETY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY; SIMULATION TOOL;

FEEDBACK; FIRES; TECHNOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 77954643695     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13226-1_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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