Metazoa Ludens: Mixed-reality interaction and play for small pets and humans

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 876-891

  Cheok, Adrian David ^a,b   Tan, Roger Thomas Kok Chuen ^a   Peiris, Roshan Lalintha ^a,c   Fernando, Owen Noel Newton ^a   Soon, James Teh Keng ^a   Wijesena, Imiyage Janaka Prasad ^a   Sen, Janyn Yin Ping ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Communication; computer gaming; human animal interaction; mixed reality; multimodal interaction

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION SCORE; COMPUTER GAMING; FLOW THEORIES; GAME SYSTEM; HUMAN USERS; HUMAN-ANIMAL INTERACTION; INTERACTION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE GAMING; INTERACTIVE MEDIA; METAZOA; MIXED REALITY; MULTI-MODAL INTERACTIONS; POSITIVE EFFECTS; REMOTE INTERACTIONS; RESEARCH SYSTEM;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; RESEARCH; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMALS;

EID: 80052068379     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2011.2108998     Document Type: Article

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