Sciweavers

1640 search results - page 71 / 328
» Virtual Explorer: Interactive Virtual Environment for Educat...
Sort
View
VR
2007
IEEE
151views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
The Influence of Visual Appearance of User's Avatar on the Manipulation of Objects in Virtual Environments
This paper describes an experiment conducted to study the influence of visual appearance of user’s avatar (or 3D cursor) on the manipulation of virtual objects in Virtual Enviro...
Abdelmajid Kadri, Anatole Lécuyer, Jean-Mar...
HAPTICS
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Bringing Haptics to Second Life for Visually Impaired People
Potential applications of online virtual worlds are attracting the interest of many researchers around the world. One and perhaps the most famous example of such systems is Linden ...
Maurizio de Pascale, Sara Mulatto, Domenico Pratti...
TEI
2009
ACM
107views Hardware» more  TEI 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Tactful interaction: exploring interactive social touch through a collaborative tangible installation
How do tangible systems take advantage of our sociophysical embodiment in the world? How can we use tangible interaction to better understand collaboration and intersubjectivity? ...
Bruno Nadeau, Amanda Williams
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Tangible user interface for chemistry education: comparative evaluation and re-design
Augmented Chemistry (AC) is an application that utilizes a tangible user interface (TUI) for organic chemistry education. The empirical evaluation described in this paper compares...
Morten Fjeld, Jonas Fredriksson, Martin Ejdestig, ...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Expressive robots in education: varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor
Teaching is inherently a social interaction between teacher and student. Despite this knowledge, many educational tools, such as vocabulary training programs, still model the inte...
Martin Saerbeck, Tom Schut, Christoph Bartneck, Ma...