Virtual worlds are developing rapidly over the internet. They are visited by avatars and staffed with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). An avatar is a representation of a phys...
The vision of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing promises that our future environments will be furnished with an increasing number of computationally augmented artifacts. Conseque...
Human perception, in a world of continuous and seamless exposure to visual and auditory stimuli, is increasingly challenged to information overload. Among the primary human senses,...
We have been developing a support system for the visually disabled t,o actively recognize threedimensional objects or environments, an application system of 3D computer vision. Th...
In neurological system of primates, changes in posture are detected by the central nervous system through a vestibular process. This process, located in inner ear, coordinates seve...