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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Physical activity motivating games: virtual rewards for real activity
Contemporary lifestyle has become increasingly sedentary: little physical (sports, exercises) and much sedentary (TV, computers) activity. The nature of sedentary activity is self...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Mac Coombe, Jill Freyne, Dipak B...
APGV
2010
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Can I pass?: using affordances to measure perceived size in virtual environments
Perception of an accurate sense of the scale depicted in computer graphics is important for many applications. How to best characterize the accuracy of space perception in compute...
Michael Geuss, Jeanine Stefanucci, Sarah H. Creem-...
CHI
1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
What HCI designers can learn from video game designers
Computer users have tasks they need to perform, and are therefore motivated to overcome poorly designed interfaces. With video games, there is no external motivation for the task ...
Randy Pausch, Rich Gold, Tim Skelly, David Thiel
HAPTICS
2002
IEEE
14 years 13 days ago
Virtual Peg-in-Hole Performance Using a 6-DOF Magnetic Levitation Haptic Device: Comparison with Real Forces and with Visual Gui
We describe two experiments using three testbeds (real, virtual and vision-only) for comparison of user performance during 3-D peg-in-hole tasks. Tasks are performed using a six-d...
B. J. Unger, A. Nicolaidis, Peter J. Berkelman, A....
IV
2000
IEEE
152views Visualization» more  IV 2000»
13 years 12 months ago
Effects of Desktop 3D World Design on User Navigation and Search Performance
Desktop virtual reality (VR) offers a powerful environment for visualizing structure in large information sets. In well-designed virtual worlds, users can employ skills from wayfi...
David Modjeska, John A. Waterworth