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CE
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Reusable, lifelike virtual humans for mentoring and role-playing
Lifelike, interactive digital characters, serving as mentors and role-playing actors, have been shown to significantly improve learner motivation and retention. However, the cost...
Edward M. Sims
VRST
2003
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
Information-rich virtual environments: theory, tools, and research agenda
Virtual environments (VEs) allow users to experience and interact with a rich sensory environment, but most virtual worlds contain only sensory information similar to that which w...
Doug A. Bowman, Chris North, Jian Chen, Nicholas F...
GECCO
2003
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
On Role of Implicit Interaction and Explicit Communications in Emergence of Social Behavior in Continuous Predators-Prey Pursuit
We present the result of our work on use of genetic programming for evolving social behavior of agents situated in inherently cooperative environment. We use predators-prey pursuit...
Ivan Tanev, Katsunori Shimohara
HCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Interactive Demonstration of Pointing Gestures for Virtual Trainers
Abstract. While interactive virtual humans are becoming widely used in education, training and delivery of instructions, building the animations required for such interactive chara...
Yazhou Huang, Marcelo Kallmann
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Virtual world builder toolkit
In this paper we present a system that automatically generates a 3D virtual world from a virtual institution (VI) specification, namely of activities that will take place in the v...
T. Trescak, M. Esteva, I. Rodriguez, J. Morales