| Title | Virtual Body Language |
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| Contributor | Jeffrey Ventrella (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.17613/rtjk-ac67 |
| Landing page | https://playstorypress.org/books/virtual-body-language/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
| Publisher | Play Story Press |
| Publication place | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Published on | 2024-10-30 |
| ISBN | 978-1-300-91769-4 (Paperback) |
| Long abstract | Why does the 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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