Lifelike, interactive digital characters, serving as mentors and role-playing actors, have been shown to significantly improve learner motivation and retention. However, the cost...
Currently, a number of distributed software systems development tools exist, but typically they are designed either to satisfy industrial standards – industrial perspective – o...
Alcides Calsavara, Agnaldo K. Noda, Juarez da Cost...
In this article we propose an architecture for the inclusion and exploitation of semantic aspects in a CAD environment. Our schema focuses on the enhancement and improvement of a c...
Carlos Toro, Jorge Posada, Stefan Wundrak, Andr&ea...
The generation of multimodal virtual environments for surgical training is complicated by the necessity to develop heterogeneous simulation scenarios such as surgical incision, ca...
Suvranu De, Yi-Je Lim, Manivannan Muniyandi, Manda...
Traditionally, there have been two large obstacles faced in attempting to apply AI techniques to games and other virtual environments. The first obstacle is the gap between the la...