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IVA
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Virtual Tour Guide for Virtual Worlds
In this paper we present an implementation of a embodied conversational agent that serves as a virtual tour guide in Second Life. We show how we combined the abilities of a convers...
Dusan Jan, Antonio Roque, Anton Leuski, Jackie Mor...
CSUR
1999
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13 years 7 months ago
Hypermedia on the Web: what will it take?
: Researchers in the hypermedia field often lament that the World Wide Web does not support many of hypermedia's rich structuring, navigation and annotation features. What wou...
Fabio Vitali, Michael Bieber
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Accountabilities of presence: reframing location-based systems
How do mobility and presence feature as aspects of social life? Using a case study of paroled offenders tracked via Global Positioning System (GPS), we explore the ways that locat...
Emily Troshynski, Charlotte P. Lee, Paul Dourish
CHI
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Designing effective haptic interaction: inverted damping
In this paper, we describe a new force-feedback technique termed "inverted damping", which aids users in manually selecting specific items from within a range of possibl...
Jason Williams, Georg Michelitsch
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
A data-oriented survey of context models
Context-aware systems are pervading everyday life, therefore context modeling is becoming a relevant issue and an expanding research field. This survey has the goal to provide a c...
Cristiana Bolchini, Carlo Curino, Elisa Quintarell...