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Virtual Body Language

Virtual Body Language

Ventrella, Jeffrey

Paperback

General ComputersGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1257763555
ISBN13: 9781257763559
Publisher: Lulu Press
Published: Jun 11 2011
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Whydoesthe tail wag the brain? What is virtual autism?Why can't our avatars walk hand-in-hand? Will a nonverbal Babel fish save the world? Jeffrey Ventrella, a seasoned virtual worlds programmer and visual language expert, reviews the history of avatars, smileys, and other expressive forms, and considers a future of spectacular creativity. This book combines thoughtful scholarship with amusing anecdotes from the trenches of Silicon Valley. Virtual Body Language presents a thorough analysis of the neurological, linguistic, aesthetic, and technical aspects of how nonverbal communication can be distributed over the internet. Based on nearly a decade of avatar development, Ventrella has the practical foundation on which to justify even the most outrageous claims, regarding what avatar might mean in the future.

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