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HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Shaping Event-Based Haptic Transients Via an Improved Understanding of Real Contact Dynamics
Haptic interactions with stiff virtual surfaces feel more realistic when a short-duration transient is added to the spring force at contact. But how should this event-based transi...
Jonathan Fiene, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Optimal audio-visual representations for illiterate users of computers
We present research leading toward an understanding of the optimal audio-visual representation for illustrating concepts for illiterate and semi-literate users of computers. In ou...
Indrani Medhi, Archana Prasad, Kentaro Toyama
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Exploring affective design for physical controls
Physical controls such as knobs, sliders, and buttons are experiencing a revival as many computing systems progress from personal computing architectures towards ubiquitous comput...
Colin Swindells, Karon E. MacLean, Kellogg S. Boot...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Human perception of synthetic character emotions in the presence of conflicting and congruent vocal and facial expressions
Audio-visual emotion expression by synthetic agents is widely employed in research, industrial, and commercial applications. However, the mechanism through which people judge the ...
Emily Mower, Sungbok Lee, Maja J. Mataric, Shrikan...
ICMCS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Joint-processing of audio-visual signals in human perception of conflicting synthetic character emotions
Expressive audio-visual synthetic characters are increasingly employed in research and commercial applications. However, the mechanism that people employ to interpret conflicting...
Emily Mower, Sungbok Lee, Maja J. Mataric, Shrikan...