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AINA
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Wide-Area Real-Time Distributed Computing in a Tightly Managed Optical Grid - An Optiputer Vision
: Wide area network (WAN) -based distributed computing (DC) has become an active field of research, especially under the label of grid computing. On the other hand, research on WAN...
K. H. (Kane) Kim
CE
2007
133views more  CE 2007»
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
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The use of emotions to create believable agents in a virtual environment
In the past emotions have been dismissed as a distraction to the logical, scientific thought process. More recently however, the importance of emotion in human-like intelligence a...
Karthi Selvarajah, Debbie Richards
SI3D
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
An example-based motion synthesis technique for locomotion and object manipulation
We synthesize natural-looking locomotion, reaching and grasping for a virtual character in order to accomplish a wide range of movement and manipulation tasks in real time. Our vi...
Andrew W. Feng, Yuyu Xu, Ari Shapiro
CHI
2002
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Evaluating the effectiveness of spatial memory in 2D and 3D physical and virtual environments
User interfaces can improve task performance by exploiting the powerful human capabilities for spatial cognition. This opportunity has been demonstrated by many prior experiments....
Andy Cockburn, Bruce J. McKenzie