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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Catchup: a useful application of time-travel in meetings
People are often required to catch up on information they have missed in meetings, because of lateness or scheduling conflicts. Catching up is a complex cognitive process where pe...
Simon Tucker, Ofer Bergman, Anand Ramamoorthy, Ste...
TEI
2010
ACM
179views Hardware» more  TEI 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
Feeling the beat where it counts: fostering multi-limb rhythm skills with the haptic drum kit
This paper introduces a tool known as the Haptic Drum Kit, which employs four computer-controlled vibrotactile devices, one attached to each wrist and ankle. In the applications d...
Simon Holland, Anders J. Bouwer, Mathew Dalgelish,...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Increasing the expressiveness of virtual agents: autonomous generation of speech and gesture for spatial description tasks
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...
Kirsten Bergmann, Stefan Kopp
VR
2007
IEEE
168views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
Can People Not Tell Left from Right in VR? Point-to-origin Studies Revealed Qualitative Errors in Visual Path Integration
Even in state-of-the-art virtual reality (VR) setups, participants often feel lost when navigating through virtual environments. In psychological experiments, such disorientation ...
Bernhard E. Riecke, Jan Malte Wiener
MSWIM
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Huginn: a 3D visualizer for wireless ns-2 traces
Discrete-event network simulation is a major tool for the research and development of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). These simulations are used for debugging, teaching, understa...
Björn Scheuermann, Holger Füßler, ...