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2012
IEEE
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12 years 6 months ago
VRMDS: an intuitive virtual environment for supporting the conceptual design of mechanisms
This paper presents Virtual Reality Mechanism Design Studio (VRMDS), an intuitive virtual environment for supporting the interactive design and simulation of mechanisms. The studio...
Juan Camilo Alvarez, Hai-Jun Su
HPDC
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Personal Tele-Immersion Devices
The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has partnered with dozens of computational scientists and engineers to create visualiz...
Thomas A. DeFanti, Daniel J. Sandin, Gregory Dawe,...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Improving retention and graduate recruitment through immersive research experiences for undergraduates
Research experiences for undergraduates are considered an effective means for increasing student retention and encouraging undergraduate students to continue on to graduate school...
Teresa A. Dahlberg, Tiffany Barnes, Audrey Rorrer,...
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Haptic Models of an Automotive Turn-Signal Switch: Identification and Playback Results
Creating accurate haptic models of physical devices is critical to improving the realism and immersiveness of virtual environments. This paper addresses the problem of modeling th...
Mark B. Colton, John M. Hollerbach
HAPTICS
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Quantifying perception of nonlinear elastic tissue models using multidimensional scaling
Simplified soft tissue models used in surgical simulations cannot perfectly reproduce all material behaviors. In particular, many tissues exhibit the Poynting effect, which resul...
Sarthak Misra, Philipp Fürnstahl, K. T. Rames...