Proxemics with multiple dynamic characters in an immersive virtual environment

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Llobera, Joan ^a   Spanlang, Bernhard ^a,d   Ruffini, Giulio ^b   Slater, Mel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Edifici de l'Observatori Fabra   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Avatars; Human computer interaction; Proxemics; Virtual characters

Indexed keywords

AVATARS; DYNAMIC CHARACTER; ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY; HUMAN-SIZE; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; LEVEL 5; PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA; PROXEMICS; QUALITATIVE RESPONSE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; TIME-PERIODS; VIRTUAL CHARACTER; VIRTUAL OBJECTS;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); EXPERIMENTS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 78649259650     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1857893.1857896     Document Type: Article

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