Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) show great promise in domains such as education. Instead of using 3D space to weakly imitate physical classrooms, educators can create 3D...
There is a growing need for creating life-like virtual human simulations that can conduct a natural spoken dialog with a human student on a predefined subject. We present an over...
Anton Leuski, Jarrell Pair, David R. Traum, Peter ...
ECOME is an interactive, graph-based model for simulating an evolving, closed consumption web. It demonstrates the fundamental behavior of a global ecosystem over evolutionary tim...
Christopher Bystroff, Sam DeLuca, Carl N. McDaniel
We describe the design and trial of a remotely conducted surgical master class, using a haptic virtual environment as an integral part of the learning process. In the trial, we li...
Chris Gunn, Matthew A. Hutchins, Duncan Stevenson,...
This paper describes ethnographic observations and analysis of the performance of student teams working on year-long software projects for industrial clients. Personality types we...