The audio uncanny valley: Sound, fear and the horror game

Proceedings of Audio Mostly 2009 - A Conference on Interaction with Sound

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 21-26

  Grimshaw, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMOTIONAL STATE; EMPIRICAL DATA; HUMAN EMOTION; HUMAN LIKENESS; LARGE PARTS; UNCANNY VALLEY;

ANIMATION; COMPUTER GAMES; DESIGN; LANDFORMS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 79551487060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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