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IICS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months 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...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Social norm emergence in virtual agent societies
The advent of virtual environments such as SecondLife call for a distributed approach for norm emergence and spreading. In open virtual environments, monitoring various interactin...
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, Martin...
MM
2010
ACM
182views Multimedia» more  MM 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
A 3d data intensive tele-immersive grid
Networked virtual environments like Second Life enable distant people to meet for leisure as well as work. But users are represented through avatars controlled by keyboards and mo...
Benjamin Petit, Thomas Dupeux, Benoit Bossavit, Jo...
CORR
2008
Springer
98views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
The Physical World as a Virtual Reality
This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the ph...
Brian Whitworth
ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Automatically Detecting Points of Interest and Social Networks from Tracking Positions of Avatars in a Virtual World
With hundreds of millions of users already today, virtual worlds will become an important factor in tomorrow's media landscape. In a virtual world, users are represented by s...
Frank Kappe, Bilal Zaka, Michael Steurer