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ICIA
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Integrating Multiple Representations of Spatial Knowledge for Mapping, Navigation, and Communication
A robotic chauffeur should reason about spatial information with a variety of scales, dimensions, and ontologies. Rich representations of both the quantitative and qualitative cha...
Patrick Beeson, Matt MacMahon, Joseph Modayil, Ani...
SG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
The Effects of Finger-Walking in Place (FWIP) for Spatial Knowledge Acquisition in Virtual Environments
Abstract. Virtual environments (VEs) can be used to study issues related to human navigation, such as spatial knowledge acquisition. In our prior work, we introduced a new locomoti...
Ji-Sun Kim, Denis Gracanin, Kresimir Matkovic, Fra...
HCI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Evaluation of Wayfinding Aids Interface in Virtual Environment
It is difficult for a navigator to find a way to a given target location in an unfamiliar environment. Often, wayfinding guidance such as an overview map is provided to assist the ...
Anna Wu, Wei Zhang, Bo Hu, Xiaolong Zhang
MM
2003
ACM
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14 years 20 days ago
Avatar motion control by user body postures
This paper describes a virtual reality system that realizes both an avatar motion control and a virtual object manipulation without avatar representation. Our goal is to do seamle...
Satoshi Yonemoto, Hiroshi Nakano, Rin-ichiro Tanig...
AFRIGRAPH
2001
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Expressive textures
If a moving image is more expressive than words or than a still image, then an animated facial expression can explain more in depth the feelings of a virtual character. Facial ani...
K. Fei