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DCAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
The Intelligent Butler: A Virtual Agent for Disabled and Elderly People Assistance
Abstract. Social assistance constitutes an increasing problem in developed countries, which can be considered from two dimensions: the home and the hospital frameworks. Anyway, mos...
Gabriel Fiol-Roig, Diana Arellano, Francisco J. Pe...
DIMEA
2008
223views Multimedia» more  DIMEA 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Toward accessible 3D virtual environments for the blind and visually impaired
3D virtual environments are increasingly used for education, business and recreation but are often inaccessible to users who are visually impaired, effectively creating a digital ...
Gareth R. White, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Graham McA...
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
The Effect of Sensor/Actuator Asymmetries in Haptic Interfaces
Haptic interfaces enable us to interact with virtual objects by sensing our actions and communicating them to a virtual environment. A haptic interface with force feedback capabil...
Federico Barbagli, John Kenneth Salisbury Jr.
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Learning empathy: a data-driven framework for modeling empathetic companion agents
Affective reasoning plays an increasingly important role in cognitive accounts of social interaction. Humans continuously assess one another's situational context, modify the...
Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester
CA
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Virtual People: Capturing Human Models to Populate Virtual Worlds
In this paper a new technique is introduced for automatically building recognisable moving 3D models of individual people. Realistic modelling of people is essential for advanced ...
Adrian Hilton, Daniel Beresford, Thomas Gentils, R...