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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Applying the lessons of the attack on the world trade center, 11th September 2001, to the design and use of interactive evacuati
The collapse of buildings, such as terminal 2E at Paris' Charles de Gaule Airport, and of fires, such as the Rhode Island, Station Night Club tragedy, has focused public atte...
C. W. Johnson
VRML
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
PathSim visualizer: an Information-Rich Virtual Environment framework for systems biology
Increasingly, biology researchers and medical practitioners are using computational tools to model and analyze dynamic systems across scales from the macro to the cellular to the ...
Nicholas F. Polys, Doug A. Bowman, Chris North, Re...
HICSS
2003
IEEE
124views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
14 years 28 days ago
Community Building and Virtual Teamwork in an Online Learning Environment
In the world of OTIS, an online Internet School for occupational therapists, students from four European countries were encouraged to work collaboratively through problem based le...
Martin D. Beer, Frances Slack, Gillian Armitt
ISRR
2001
Springer
121views Robotics» more  ISRR 2001»
14 years 2 days ago
Towards a Realistic Medical Simulator using Virtual Environments and Haptic Interaction
This paper presents our experience towards the conception of a virtual reality medical simulator coupled with haptic interaction aimed at training surgeons. This area of research h...
Christian Laugier, César Mendoza, Kenneth S...
PRESENCE
2006
89views more  PRESENCE 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
A Longitudinal Study of Task Performance, Head Movements, Subjective Report, Simulator Sickness, and Transformed Social Interact
Empirical research on human behavior in collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) is in its infancy. Historically, one of the more valuable tools social scientists have used to ev...
Jeremy N. Bailenson, Nick Yee