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CVPR
2012
IEEE
12 years 2 months ago
SUN attribute database: Discovering, annotating, and recognizing scene attributes
In this paper we present the first large-scale scene attribute database. First, we perform crowd-sourced human studies to find a taxonomy of 102 discriminative attributes. Next,...
Genevieve Patterson, James Hays
ECSCW
2011
13 years 6 days ago
Common Ground and Small Group Interaction in Large Virtual World Gatherings
Virtual worlds can allow conversational participants to achieve common ground in situations where the information volume and need for clarification is low. We argue in favor of thi...
N. Sadat Shami, Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg
CHI
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Places in spaces: common ground in virtual worlds
Virtual worlds can allow conversational participants to achieve common ground in situations where the information volume and need for clarification is low. We argue in favor of th...
N. Sadat Shami, Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
CHB
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Managing perceived communication failures with affordances of ICTs
Affordances of information communication technology (ICT) are often thought to influence communicators usage of a communication technology. This is not surprising since ICTs vary ...
Chei Sian Lee
VR
2010
IEEE
176views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
Can you stand on virtual grounds? A study on postural affordances in virtual reality
The concept of affordance, introduced by the psychologist James Gibson, can be defined as the functional utility of an object, a surface or an event. The purpose of this article ...
Tony Regia-Corte, Maud Marchal, Anatole Léc...
FIRSTMONDAY
2010
109views more  FIRSTMONDAY 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Computer Game Mods, Modders, Modding, and the Mod Scene
Computer games have increasingly been the focus of user-led innovations in the form of game mods. This paper examines how different kinds of socio-technical affordances serve to o...
Walt Scacchi
ISCIS
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Towards linking affordances with mirror/canonical neurons
— The notion of affordances is often directly linked with studies on mirror and canonical neurons as well as studies that try to relate language. In our previous work, we had dev...
Erol Sahin, Selim T. Erdogan