The navigation support provided by user interfaces of Virtual Environments (VEs) is often inadequate and tends to be overly complex, especially in the case of large-scale VEs. In ...
In this paper, we present our open source, platform independent toolkit for developing 3D talking agents, namely Xface. It relies on MPEG-4 Face Animation (FA) standard. The toolk...
: This paper presents a 3D scene modeling method for a Simple and Effective 3D Navigation (SE3DN) system, with 2D map guidance and multimedia information. SE3DN constructs 3D model...
In this paper we describe an extractive method of creating very short summaries or gists that capture the essence of a news story using a linguistic technique called lexical chaini...
Nicola Stokes, Eamonn Newman, Joe Carthy, Alan F. ...
The increasing use of multimedia in education makes text-production with computers important for students. What kind of role does the Internet play here as an external source of i...