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IVA
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Health Document Explanation by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of a virtual agent that explains health documents to patients. The prevalence and impact of low health literacy is presented as a motivation f...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Michael K. ...
ACMACE
2007
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Tangible interfaces for real-time 3D virtual environments
Emergent game formats, such as machinima, that use game worlds as expressive 3D performance spaces have new expressive powers with an increase of the quality of their underlying g...
Ali Mazalek, Michael Nitsche
CHI
2001
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Reaching movements to augmented and graphic objects in virtual environments
This work explores how the availability of visual and haptic feedback affects the kinematics of reaching performance in a tabletop virtual environment. Eight subjects performed re...
Andrea H. Mason, Masuma A. Walji, Elaine J. Lee, C...
CE
2007
133views more  CE 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
Reusable, lifelike virtual humans for mentoring and role-playing
Lifelike, interactive digital characters, serving as mentors and role-playing actors, have been shown to significantly improve learner motivation and retention. However, the cost...
Edward M. Sims
VR
2002
IEEE
100views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2002»
14 years 1 months ago
Efficient Manipulation of Object Groups in Virtual Environments
In this paper, we describe simple techniques for object group manipulation, an important operation in user interaction with a Virtual Environment. All presented manipulation techn...
Wolfgang Stürzlinger, Graham Smith