Body and mind: A study of avatar personalization in three virtual worlds

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1151-1160

  Ducheneaut, Nicolas ^a   Don Wen, Ming Hui ^b   Yee, Nicholas ^a   Wadley, Greg ^c  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avatars; Customization; Personality; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

AVATARS; BUSINESS MEETINGS; CUSTOMIZATION; DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALIZATIONS; VIRTUAL WORLDS; WORLD OF WARCRAFT;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84892473761     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518877     Document Type: Conference Paper

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