Browsing by Author "Stocker, Catherine"

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

      Pelechano Gómez, Núria; Stocker, Catherine; Allbeck, Jan; Badler, Norman (2008)
      Conference report
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      Crowd simulation models are currently lacking a commonly accepted validation method. In this paper, we propose level of presence achieved by a human in a virtual environment (VE) as a metric for virtual crowd behavior. ...

    • Feeling crowded? Exploring presence in virtual crowds 

      Pelechano Gómez, Núria; Stocker, Catherine; Allbeck, Jan; Badler, Norman (2007)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Virtual reality experiments with virtual crowds are necessary to study human behavior under panic or stressful situations that cannot be evaluated in the real world (i.e., building evacuation due to fire). In order to ...