Avatars meet meetings: Design issues in integrating avatars in distributed corporate meetings

Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 35-44

  Shami, N Sadat ^a   Cheng, Li Te ^a   Rohall, Steven ^a   Sempere, Andrew ^a   Patterson, John ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

avatars; distributed meetings; virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

AVATARS; CORPORATE MEETINGS; CUSTOMIZABLE; DESIGN ISSUES; DISTRIBUTED MEETINGS; MEETING SUPPORT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OLYMPUS; PERIPHERAL DISPLAYS; SURFACE DESIGN; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY;

DESIGN;

EID: 78751683546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1880071.1880078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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