Testing elderly people's fear of crime using a virtual environment

Proceedings - 2011 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, EISIC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 63-69

  Park, Andrew J ^a   Hwang, Eunju ^b   Spicer, Valerie ^c   Cheng, Connie ^c   Brantingham, Patricia L ^c   Sixsmith, Andrew ^d  

^a THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MARTIN   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS; COMMON AGREEMENT; DAILY ACTIVITY; ELDERLY PEOPLE; INHERENT LIMITATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CRIME;

EID: 81255173499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EISIC.2011.68     Document Type: Conference Paper

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