Uncanny behaviour in survival horror games

Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-25

  Tinwell, Angela ^a   Grimshaw, Mark ^a   Williams, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audio visual speech; Characters; Facial expression; Horror games; Realism; Uncanny valley

Indexed keywords

EID: 85076383828     PISSN: 1757191X     EISSN: 17571928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1386/jgvw.2.1.3_1     Document Type: Article

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