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CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 20 days ago
Synchronous interaction among hundreds: an evaluation of a conference in an avatar-based virtual environment
This paper presents the first in-depth evaluation of a large multi-format virtual conference. The conference took place in an avatar-based 3D virtual world with spatialized audio,...
Thomas Erickson, N. Sadat Shami, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
HCI
2011
13 years 16 days ago
Body Buddies: Social Signaling through Puppeteering
While virtual worlds have evolved to provide a good medium for social communication, they are very primitive in their social and affective communication design. The social communic...
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Katherine Isbister, Jeffery Ven...
3DIM
2011
IEEE
12 years 9 months ago
Toward Automatic 3D Generic Object Modeling from One Single Image
We present a novel method for solving the challenging problem of generating 3D models of generic object categories from just one single un-calibrated image. Our method leverages t...
Min Sun, Shyam Sunder Kumar, Gary R. Bradski, Silv...
HCI
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Acquiring a Physical World and Serving Its Mirror World Simultaneously
A mirror world, which is a virtual space modeling a physical space, attracts enormous interests from VR community recently. Various applications such as Second Life, Google Earth a...
Sengpyo Hong, Jong-gil Ahn, Heedong Ko, Jinwook Ki...
CORR
2008
Springer
73views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Secrecy Capacity of a Class of Broadcast Channels with an Eavesdropper
We study the security of communication between a single transmitter and multiple receivers in a broadcast channel in the presence of an eavesdropper. Characterizing the secrecy ca...
Ersen Ekrem, Sennur Ulukus