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USENIX
2003
13 years 8 months ago
A Multi-User Virtual Machine
Recent efforts aimed at improving the scalability of the JavaTM platform have focused primarily on the safe collocation of multiple applications in the virtual machine. This is of...
Grzegorz Czajkowski, Laurent Daynès, Ben Ti...
PRESENCE
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Effects of Stereo Viewing Conditions on Distance Perception in Virtual Environments
Several studies from different research groups investigating perception of absolute, egocentric distances in virtual environments have reported a compression of the intended size ...
Peter Willemsen, Amy Ashurst Gooch, William B. Tho...
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Enhancing Transparency of a Position-Exchange Teleoperator
Dynamic properties of robotic manipulators, including inertia, damping, and friction, limit the transparency of a haptic-feedback teleoperator. In this paper, we develop a positio...
Mohsen Mahvash, Allison M. Okamura
IAT
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Emergent Storylines Based on Autonomous Characters with Mindreading Capabilities
Virtual storytelling often uses a fixed, pre-scripted storyline, constraining the characters’ autonomy and behaviour. An agent-based approach provides possibilities of a narrati...
Tibor Bosse, Zulfiqar A. Memon, Jan Treur
AAI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Maintaining engagement in Long-Term Interventions with Relational Agents
We discuss issues in designing virtual humans for applications which require long-term voluntary use, and the problem of maintaining engagement with users over time. Concepts and t...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman, Langxuan Yin