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Open AccessMere presence of informal guardians deters burglars: a virtual reality study
This study investigates the deterrent effects of incremental levels of guardianship on residential burglary and assesses how burglars differ from non-burglars in terms of their perceptions of opportunities for...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Serious Game for Training Verbal Resilience to Doorstep Scams
People are frequently confronted with scams; swindlers trying to gain your trust to get hold of your personal information, money or belongings. Elderly people are especially vulnerable to these tricks, that ty...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Get Your Virtual Hands Off Me! – Develo** Threatening IVAs Using Haptic Feedback
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) become widely used for numerous applications, varying from healthcare decision support to communication training. In several of such applications, it is useful if IVAs have th...
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Open AccessUsing virtual reality in criminological research
Since the pioneering early studies of the 1990s hinted at its promise as a research method, virtual reality (VR) technology has increasingly been used by social scientists. Given recent developments that have ...
