Beings in the game-world: Characters, avatars, and players

Proceedings - 4th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, IE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bayliss, Peter ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avatars; Characters; Embodiment; Telepresence

Indexed keywords

VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

AVATARS; CHARACTERS; EMBODIMENT; GAMEPLAY; IMMERSIVE; TELEPRESENCE;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 79952326926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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