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AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Investigating the Effects of Social Goals in a Negotiation Game with Virtual Humans
Educational games may be particularly suited to teaching social learning skills with virtual humans. We investigate the importance of social goals and engaging social interactions ...
Amy Ogan, Vincent Aleven, Christopher Jones
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Coordinating joint activity in avatar-mediated interaction
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) currently represent the most widely used type of social 3D virtual worlds with millions of users worldwide. Although MMOGs take face-to-...
Robert J. Moore, E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman, Nico...
IJVR
2007
204views more  IJVR 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling and Animating Virtual Humans
—We report on the workflow for the creation of realistic virtual anthropomorphic characters. 3D-models of human heads have been reconstructed from real people by following a stru...
Frank Hülsken, Christian Eckes, Roland Kuck, ...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
189views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Operational experience with a virtual networking laboratory
Virtual laboratories are a potential replacement for standard laboratory facilities. Use of these virtual resources can reduce cost and maintenance overheads for teaching institut...
Charlie Wiseman, Ken Wong, Tilman Wolf, Sergey Gor...
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Virtual world users evaluated according to environment design, task based and affective attention measures
This paper presents research that engages with virtual worlds for education users to understand design of these applications for their needs. An in-depth multi-method investigatio...
Breen Sweeney, Anne Adams