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CHI
2002
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Comparing voodoo dolls and HOMER: exploring the importance of feedback in virtual environments
When creating techniques for manipulating objects at a distance in immersive virtual environments, researchers have primarily focused on increasing selection range, placement rang...
Jeffrey S. Pierce, Randy F. Pausch
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
The effects of empathetic virtual characters on presence in narrative-centered learning environments
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the role that narrative can play in learning. With the emergence of narrative-centered learning environments that engage students by d...
Scott W. McQuiggan, Jonathan P. Rowe, James C. Les...
EUC
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
U-Interactive: A Middleware for Ubiquitous Fashionable Computer to Interact with the Ubiquitous Environment by Gestures
In this paper we present a system, called U-interactive, that provides spontaneous interactions between human and surrounding objects in heterogenous ubiquitous computing environme...
Gyudong Shim, SangKwon Moon, Yong Song, JaeSub Kim...
HCI
2009
15 years 18 days ago
Agency Attribution in Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract. Social psychologists have documented that people attribute a humanlike agency to computers. Work in human motor cognition has identified a related effect known as "i...
John E. McEneaney
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Real ethics in a virtual world
This paper investigates the ethics of the appearance and behavior of avatars in massively multi-user online communities, in particular, avatars created for virtual business intera...
Victoria McArthur