Halting HIV/AIDS with avatars and havatars: a virtual world approach to modelling epidemics

• Main Authors: Smith? Robert J (Author), Björklund Natalie K (Author), Gordon Richard (Author), Blyden Eluemuno R (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<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...