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DSRT
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Distributed Interaction in Virtual Spaces
Virtual spaces based on the metaphor of "shared network places" are becoming a well accepted implementation approach for multiuser, multimedia, distributed cooperative w...
Alois Ferscha, James Johnson
CW
2005
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Using a Floating Origin to Improve Fidelity and Performance of Large, Distributed Virtual Worlds
Large Virtual Worlds (VWs) are increasingly common in the computer graphics areas of simulation, games, geospatial or scientific visualisation. In such VWs, simulated motion of th...
Chris Thorne
SAINT
2003
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Virtual Collaboration Spaces: The EVE Community
An Educational Virtual Environment (EVE) is an instance of a Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE), which focalises in providing collaborative, as well as educational, functiona...
Christos Bouras, Eri Giannaka, Thrasyvoulos Tsiats...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A hybrid cultural ecology: world of warcraft in China
We analyze online gaming as a site of collaboration in a digital-physical hybrid. We ground our analysis in findings from an ethnographic study of the online game World of Warcraf...
Silvia Lindtner, Bonnie A. Nardi, Yang Wang 0005, ...
SG
2005
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Engaging in a Conversation with Synthetic Characters Along the Virtuality Continuum
Abstract. During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfa...
Elisabeth André, Klaus Dorfmüller-Ulha...