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COSIT
1995
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Providing Spatial Navigation for the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a rapidly growing distributed hypertext on the Internet. This paper presents a way to enable users to navigate the WWW spatially by providing a spatial...
Andreas Dieberger
RTSS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Adapting Futures: Scalability for Real-World Computing
Creating robust real-time embedded software is critical in combining the physical world with computing, such as in consumer electronics or robotics. One challenge is the complexit...
Johannes Helander, Risto Serg, Margus Veanes, Prit...
VW
2009
Springer
153views Virtual Reality» more  VW 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Enhancing Presence in Head-Mounted Display Environments by Visual Body Feedback Using Head-Mounted Cameras
—A fully-articulated visual representation of a user in an immersive virtual environment (IVE) can enhance the user’s subjective sense of feeling present in the virtual world. ...
Gerd Bruder, Frank Steinicke, Kai Rothaus, Klaus H...
VR
2009
IEEE
136views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Does a Gradual Transition to the Virtual World increase Presence?
In order to increase a user’s sense of presence in an artificial environment some researchers propose a gradual transition from reality to the virtual world instead of immersin...
Frank Steinicke, Gerd Bruder, Klaus Hinrichs, Anth...
ASSETS
2008
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
PowerUp: an accessible virtual world
PowerUp is a multi-player virtual world educational game with a broad set of accessibility features built in. This paper considers what features are necessary to make virtual worl...
Shari Trewin, Vicki L. Hanson, Mark Laff, Anna Cav...