This study integrated the computers as social actors (CASA) framework with objectification theory to predict that traits, such as sexism, influence perceptions of virtual representations as well as attributions of the source and message. Participants (N= 397) received a message about dating or job interviews presented by a virtual woman in either context-appropriate or context-inappropriate dre...

—Virtual Human Character movement is very essential on virtual reality game in order to perform natural or emotional movement. Basically, numerous researchers focusing on movements from input such as: joystick, mouse, and keyboard. The other movement's concepts come from artificial intelligence as a part of improving interactivity. This paper intends to offer different method of controlling the...

Telling stories is an important aspect virtual agents designed to interact with people socially over time. We describe an experiment designed to investigate the impact of the identity, presentation form, and perspective of a virtual storyteller on a human user who engages in a story-swapping activity with two virtual characters. For each interaction, the user was given 10 “ice-breaker” question...

family functioning among woman whit superior, ordinary and weak hijab. this is a causal-comparative descriptive study. the population includes all iranian females over 15 years of age from among whom a sample of 2868 subjects was selected using the stratified cluster random sampling method. the required data were collected using a demographic questionnaire. the obtained data were analyzed using...

this report describes a 55-year-old woman in whom yellow scorpion sting resulted in the development of mobitz type 1 and transient complete heart blocks unresponsive to atropine administration.  it might be concluded that although autonomic involvement including parasympathetic overactivity is present in such cases, other factors such as toxic damage to the cardiac conduction system may play a ...