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VISUALIZATION
2002
IEEE
14 years 16 days ago
Simulating Fire with Texture Splats
We propose the use of textured splats as the basic display primitives for an open surface fire model. The high-detail textures help to achieve a smooth boundary of the fire and ...
Xiaoming Wei, Wei Li, Klaus Mueller, Arie E. Kaufm...
VRCAI
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Explorative construction of virtual worlds: an interactive kernel approach
Despite steady research advances in many aspects of virtual reality, building and testing virtual worlds remains to be a very difficult process. Most virtual environments are stil...
Jinseok Seo, Gerard Jounghyun Kim
CORR
2010
Springer
167views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Development of a Context Aware Virtual Smart Home Simulator
Context awareness is the most important research area in ubiquitous computing. In particular, for smart home, context awareness attempts to bring the best services to the home hab...
Tam Van Nguyen, Huy Anh Nguyen, Deokjai Choi
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Synchronous interaction among hundreds: an evaluation of a conference in an avatar-based virtual environment
This paper presents the first in-depth evaluation of a large multi-format virtual conference. The conference took place in an avatar-based 3D virtual world with spatialized audio,...
Thomas Erickson, N. Sadat Shami, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
HCI
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Intelligent Agents for Training On-Board Fire Fighting
Simulation-based training in complex decision making often requires ample personnel for playing various roles (e.g. team mates, adversaries). Using intelligent agents may diminish ...
Karel van den Bosch, Maaike Harbers, Annerieke Heu...