Being a part of the crowd: Towards validating VR crowds using presence

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 135-141

  Pelechano, Nuria ^a   Stocker, Catherine ^b   Allbeck, Jan ^b   Badler, Norman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowd simulation; Egocentric features; Presence

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; EXPERIMENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; VERIFICATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CROWD BEHAVIOR; CROWD SIMULATION; EGOCENTRIC FEATURES; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; PILOT EXPERIMENT; PRESENCE; VIRTUAL CROWDS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84899956563     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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