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HHCI
2000
14 years 17 days ago
A Shape Recognition Benchmark for Evaluating Usability of a Haptic Environment
This paper describes a benchmark task for evaluating the usability of haptic environments for a shape perception task. The task measures the ease with which observers can recogniz...
Arthur E. Kirkpatrick, Sarah A. Douglas
CHI
1998
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Awareness Driven Video Quality of Service in Collaborative Virtual Environments
We extend previous work on texture mapping video streams into virtual environments by introducing awareness driven video QoS. This uses movements within a shared virtual world to ...
Gail Reynard, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Chr...
AAAI
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Design Principles for Intelligent Environments
This paper describes design criteria for creating highly embedded, interactive spaces that we call Intelligent Environments. The motivation for building these systems is to bring ...
Michael H. Coen
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Safety Enhancing Mechanisms for Pervasive Computing Systems in Intelligent Environments
Pervasive computing systems provide personalized and intimate services to improve users' quality of life by integrating computation and communication into the environments. Wi...
Hen-I Yang, Abdelsalam Helal
VISUALIZATION
1992
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Virtual Spacetime: An Environment for the Visualization of Curved Spacetimes via Geodesic Flows
We describe an implementation of a virtual environment for visualizing the geometry of curved spacetime by the display of interactive geodesics. This technique displays the paths ...
Steve Bryson