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VW
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 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
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14 years 2 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
13 years 9 months 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...
IAT
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Learning Personal Agents with Adaptive Player Modeling in Virtual Worlds
Abstract--There has been growing interest in creating intelligent agents in virtual worlds that do not follow fixed scripts predefined by the developers, but react accordingly base...
Yilin Kang, Ah-Hwee Tan
VR
2008
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Showing Users the Way: Signs in Virtual Worlds
In this paper, we report the results of a pilot study designed to evaluate the impact of signs as navigation aids in virtual worlds. Test subjects were divided into three groups (...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Stacy Rilea