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CE
2007
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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
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Modeling Epidemic Spread in Synthetic Populations - Virtual Plagues in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
A virtual plague is a process in which a behavior-affecting property spreads among characters in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG). The MMOG individuals constitute a synt...
Magnus Boman, Stefan J. Johansson
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
High Score! - Motivation Strategies for User Participation in Virtual Human Development
Conversational modeling requires an extended time commitment, and the difficulty associated with capturing the wide range of conversational stimuli necessitates extended user parti...
Shivashankar Halan, Brent Rossen, Juan Cendan, Ben...
SIGGRAPH
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Consistent illumination within optical see-through augmented environments
We present techniques which create a consistent illumination between real and virtual objects inside an application specific optical see-through display: the Virtual Showcase. We ...
Oliver Bimber, Anselm Grundhöfer, Gordon Wetz...
MOBILITY
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A pervasive gesture-driven augmented reality prototype using wireless sensor body area networks
This paper describes the prototype implementation of a pervasive, wearable augmented reality (AR) system based on a full bodymotion-capture system using low-power wireless sensors...
Peter Barrie, Andreas Komninos, Oleksii Mandrychen...