AMITIES: Avatar-mediated interactive training and individualized experience system

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 143-152

  Nagendran, Arjun ^a   Pillat, Remo ^a   Kavanaugh, Adam ^a   Welch, Greg ^a   Hughes, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications of VR (Training Systems); Avatars and virtual humans in VR; Interaction techniques

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL PUPPETRIES; GESTURE-BASED INTERFACE; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; INTERACTIVE TRAINING; MULTIPLE OBSERVERS; REMOTE INTERACTIONS; TRAINING SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

ANIMATION; BLENDING; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84887142597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2503713.2503731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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