The effect of priming pictures and videos on a question-Answer dialog scenario in a virtual environment

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 91-109

  Qu, Chao ^a   Brinkman, Willem Paul ^a   Wiggers, Pascal ^b   Heynderickx, Ingrid ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; EXPOSURE THERAPY; FREE SPEECH; GOAL-ORIENTED; KEYWORD DETECTIONS; MEDIA CONTENT; SERIOUS GAMES; SOCIAL PHOBIAS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84884577983     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: 15313263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/PRES_a_00143     Document Type: Article

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