When creating techniques for manipulating objects at a distance in immersive virtual environments, researchers have primarily focused on increasing selection range, placement rang...
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...
In this paper we present a system, called U-interactive, that provides spontaneous interactions between human and surrounding objects in heterogenous ubiquitous computing environme...
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...
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...