Virtual character personality influences participant attitudes and behavior - an interview with a virtual human character about her social anxiety

Frontiers Robotics AI

Volumn 2, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Pan, Xueni ^a   Gillies, Marco ^b   Slater, Mel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Character; Personality; Social anxiety; Virtual human; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 85038211375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22969144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2015.00001     Document Type: Article

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