This paper describes Steve, an animated agent that helps students learn to perform physical, procedural tasks. The student and Steve cohabit a three-dimensional, simulated mock-up...
In the past emotions have been dismissed as a distraction to the logical, scientific thought process. More recently however, the importance of emotion in human-like intelligence a...
We describe a new approach to the behaviour of 3D environments that supports the definition of physical processes and interactive phenomena. The work takes as a starting point the ...
Marc Cavazza, Simon Hartley, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Paol...
As knowledge becomes the primary focus of work in many industries, virtual communities and groups are emerging as part of new organizational forms. Within these virtual forms, eff...
Abstract. Virtual Interacting Network CommunIty (Vinci) is an abstract architecture to share in a secure way an ICT infrastructure among several user communities, each with its own...