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IICS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 days ago
Bi-directional Distribution of eLearning Content for Cross-technology Learning Communities
: This article describes the use of a service-oriented architecture to bridge the gap between different eLearning types and tools. The basic concept is a bi-directional distributio...
Raphael Zender, Enrico Dressler, Ulrike Lucke, Dja...
HAPTICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
A New Coupling Scheme for Haptic Rendering of Rigid Bodies Interactions Based on a Haptic Sub-world Using a Contact Graph
Interactions with virtual worlds using the sense of touch, called haptic rendering, have natural applications in many domains such as health or industry. For an accurate and realis...
Loeiz Glondu, Maud Marchal, Georges Dumont
ACMACE
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
MPML3D: agent authoring language for virtual worlds
This paper describes an authoring language for specifying communicative behavior and interaction of agents in virtual worlds. We focus on the popular three-dimensional (3D) multi-...
Sebastian Ullrich, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishi...
CASCON
2010
174views Education» more  CASCON 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Smart Services Across the Real and Virtual Worlds
Today, we are witnessing a new level of scale, complexity, and pervasiveness of software systems that are designed to support much more holistically complex processes. Much richer...
Eleni Stroulia
AR
2007
117views more  AR 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Feeling a rigid virtual world through an impulsive haptic display
—In this paper the first haptic display capable of applying a true impulse to the operator is presented. The applied impulse results in an immediate change of the user’s momen...
Emmanuel B. Vander Poorten, Yasuyoshi Yokokohji