The use of emotionally expressive avatars in Collaborative Virtual Environments

AISB'05 Convention:Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Virtual Social Agents: Social Presence Cues for Virtual Humanoids Empathic Interaction with Synthetic Characters Mind Minding Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 88-94

  Fabri, Marc ^a   Moore, David ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT;

DISEASES; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

ANIMALS;

EID: 84858952482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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