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CHI
2002
ACM
14 years 8 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
14 years 8 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
13 years 9 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
13 years 5 months 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
14 years 8 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