Halting HIV/AIDS with avatars and havatars: a virtual world approach to modelling epidemics
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A major deficit of all approaches to epidemic modelling to date has been the need to approximate or guess at human behaviour in disease-transmission-related contexts. Avatars are generally human-like figures in virtual computer world...
Main Authors: | Smith? Robert J, Björklund Natalie K, Gordon Richard, Blyden Eluemuno R |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-11-01
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Series: | BMC Public Health |
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