A study of visual perception: Social anxiety and virtual realism

Proceedings - SCCG 2009: 25th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 167-172

  Kwon, Joung H ^a   Chalmers, Alan ^a   Czanner, Silvester ^a   Czanner, Gabriela ^a   Powell, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Job interview phobia; Social anxiety; Virtual realism; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

3D AVATARS; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOUR; BLOCK DESIGNS; EXPOSURE THERAPY; JOB INTERVIEWS; SOCIAL ANXIETY; VIRTUAL AVATAR; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL REALISM; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

PHOTOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 79958760252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1980462.1980495     Document Type: Conference Paper

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