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COSIT
2009
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
SeaTouch: A Haptic and Auditory Maritime Environment for Non Visual Cognitive Mapping of Blind Sailors
Abstract. Navigating consists of coordinating egocentric and allocentric spatial frames of reference. Virtual environments have afforded researchers in the spatial community with ...
Mathieu Simonnet, Dan Jacobson, Stephane Vieillede...
CEEMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
Towards an Institutional Environment Using Norms for Contract Performance
Abstract. A strong research emphasis is being given towards regulating interoperable multi-agent environments through norms and institutions. We are concerned with environments in ...
Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio C. Oliveira
CHI
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Helper agent: designing an assistant for human-human interaction in a virtual meeting space
This paper introduces a new application area for agents in the computer interface: the support of human-human interaction. We discuss an interface agent prototype that is designed...
Katherine Isbister, Hideyuki Nakanishi, Toru Ishid...
IJMMS
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Communicating emotion through a haptic link: Design space and methodology
Communication of affect across a distance is not well supported by current technology, despite its importance to interpersonal interaction in modern lifestyles. Touch is a powerfu...
Jocelyn Smith, Karon E. MacLean
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
A Multi-Agent Approach for Peer-to-Peer Based Information Retrieval System
This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...