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CW
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Supporting Presentation Techniques based on Virtual Humans in Educational Virtual Worlds
Educational Virtual Worlds (EVWs) allow one to circumvent physical, safety, and cost constraints that often affect real-world training and learning scenarios. Virtual humans can i...
Luca Chittaro, Lucio Ieronutti, Sara Rigutti
VRST
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Virtual playground: architectures for a shared virtual world
Paul Schwartz, Lauren Bricker, Bruce Campbell, Tho...
CA
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Virtual People: Capturing Human Models to Populate Virtual Worlds
In this paper a new technique is introduced for automatically building recognisable moving 3D models of individual people. Realistic modelling of people is essential for advanced ...
Adrian Hilton, Daniel Beresford, Thomas Gentils, R...
JCHE
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
The virtual campus of the future: stimulating and simulating civic actions in a virtual world
This paper presents a pre-orientation program for incoming college students, Active Citizenship through Technology (ACT), that engaged students in civic dialogue early in their aca...
Marina Umaschi Bers, Clement Chau
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Virtually There: Exploring Proximity and Homophily in a Virtual World
— Virtual space eliminates the constraints of physical distances on communication and interaction. In this study, we examine the impact of offline proximity and homophily of play...
Yun Huang, Cuihua Shen, Dmitri Williams, Noshir S....