Mixing virtual and physical participation: The future of conference attendance?

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE Symposium on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games, HAVE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 150-155

  Shirmohammadi, Shervin ^a   Hu, Shun Yun ^b   Ooi, Wei Tsang ^c   Schiele, Gregor ^d   Wacker, Arno ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d Lower Dangan   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANT USERS; INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS; MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; NEW APPLICATIONS; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; RAPID ADVANCEMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

SURVEYS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84871980193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HAVE.2012.6374455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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