Factors Affecting Avatar Customization Behavior in Virtual Environments

a framework for identifying and prioritizing factors affecting customers’ online shopping behavior in iran

the purpose of this study is identifying effective factors which make customers shop online in iran and investigating the importance of discovered factors in online customers’ decision. in the identifying phase, to discover the factors affecting online shopping behavior of customers in iran, the derived reference model summarizing antecedents of online shopping proposed by change et al. was us...

Factors Affecting the Perception of Interobject Distances in Virtual Environments

Optimizing avatar environmental update in shared virtual reality environments

A major problem with the current generation of shared 3D virtual reality game-like environments on the Internet is that update of the virtual environment during avatar movement often lags considerably behind the scene which the avatar's user perceives. The result is an unsatisfying, artificial experience, in which the user must halt avatar movement until the new scene slowly assembles before th...

Getting the picture: Enhancing avatar representations in collaborative virtual environments

Script language for avatar animation in 3D virtual environments

This paper continues previous work of the authors on the animation of anthropomorphic avatars in virtual reality environments. An avatar animation control system was built in three hierarchical levels: joint control, basic behaviors and script language. This paper focuses on the grammar and parser for the script language, which was designed to be easy to extend and modify. Also, in order to ver...