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IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Virtual Tour Guide for Virtual Worlds
In this paper we present an implementation of a embodied conversational agent that serves as a virtual tour guide in Second Life. We show how we combined the abilities of a convers...
Dusan Jan, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Jackie Mor...
LREC
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
The GIVE-2 Corpus of Giving Instructions in Virtual Environments
We present the GIVE-2 Corpus, a new corpus of human instruction giving. The corpus was collected by asking one person in each pair of subjects to guide the other person towards co...
Andrew Gargett, Konstantina Garoufi, Alexander Kol...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Virtual guiding avatar: an effective procedure to reduce simulator sickness in virtual environments
This study developed a new procedure, a Virtual Guiding Avatar (VGA), which combined self-motion prediction cues and an independent visual background (IVB) to alleviate simulator ...
James Jeng-Weei Lin, Habib Abi-Rached, Michal Laha...
AGENTS
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Go with the Flow: Synthetic Vision for Autonomous Animated Creatures
Real-time obstacle avoidance and low-level navigation is a fundamental problem for autonomous animated creatures. Here we present an ethologically inspired approach to this proble...
Bruce Blumberg
SIGGRAPH
1995
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Navigation and locomotion in virtual worlds via flight into hand-held miniatures
This paper describes the use of a World-in-Miniature (WIM) as a navigation and locomotion device in immersive virtual environments. The WIM is a hand-held miniature graphical repr...
Randy F. Pausch, Tommy Burnette, Dan Brockway, Mic...