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BCSHCI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Docile avatars: aesthetics, experience, and sexual interaction in Second Life
Second Life, a participant-created multi-user virtual environment (MUVE), gained sudden media acclaim in 2006. Prior to that, the world was developing many of the characteristics ...
Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell
VRML
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Interactive stories on the net: a model and an architecture for X3D worlds
This work discusses a model and an architecture for interactive stories to be displayed on the net, designed for being independent from the specific story represented and suitabl...
Efrem Carnielli, Fabio Pittarello
ICAT
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Exploiting Virtual Objects' Attributes and Avatar's Behavior in DVEs Partitioning
Partitioning constitutes one of the most critical challenges a distributed virtual environment needs to handle and is related to the efficient assignment of the existing entities ...
Christos Bouras, Eri Giannaka, Thrasyvoulos Tsiats...
VRML
1995
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Internetwork Infrastructure Requirements for Virtual Environments
Virtual environments (VEs) are a broad multidisciplinary research area that includes all aspects of computer science, virtual reality, virtual worlds, teleoperation and telepresenc...
Donald P. Brutzman, Michael R. Macedonia, Michael ...
AVI
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Observing and adapting user behavior in navigational 3D interfaces
In a navigation-oriented interaction paradigm, such as desktop, mixed and augmented virtual reality, recognizing the user needs is a valuable improvement, provided that the system...
Augusto Celentano, Fabio Pittarello