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2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Multilingual Discussion in Metaverse among Students from the USA, Korea and Japan
E-learning continues to be used as an educational tool all over the world. However, the typical e-learning systems are sometimes not enough for students to feel a close connection ...
Hideyuki Kanematsu, Yoshimi Fukumura, Dana M. Barr...
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 7 days 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
2011
13 years 3 days ago
Body Buddies: Social Signaling through Puppeteering
While virtual worlds have evolved to provide a good medium for social communication, they are very primitive in their social and affective communication design. The social communic...
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Katherine Isbister, Jeffery Ven...
3DIM
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Toward Automatic 3D Generic Object Modeling from One Single Image
We present a novel method for solving the challenging problem of generating 3D models of generic object categories from just one single un-calibrated image. Our method leverages t...
Min Sun, Shyam Sunder Kumar, Gary R. Bradski, Silv...
STOC
2006
ACM
129views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Optimal phylogenetic reconstruction
One of the major tasks of evolutionary biology is the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from molecular data. The evolutionary model is given by a Markov chain on the true evolu...
Constantinos Daskalakis, Elchanan Mossel, Sé...