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GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Haptic conviction widgets
We introduce a haptic mousewheel as a platform for design exploration of haptic conviction widgets. Conviction is how strongly one wants to do something, or how strongly one desir...
Gerry Chu, Tomer Moscovich, Ravin Balakrishnan
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Recognizing interspersed sketches quickly
Sketch recognition is the automated recognition of hand-drawn diagrams. When allowing users to sketch as they would naturally, users may draw shapes in an interspersed manner, sta...
Tracy Anne Hammond, Randall Davis
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Rendering lunar eclipses
Johannes Kepler first attributed the visibility of lunar eclipses to refraction in the Earth's atmosphere in his Astronomiae Pars Optica in 1604. We describe a method for ren...
Theodore C. Yapo, Barbara Cutler
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2009
13 years 9 months ago
ISO 9241-9 evaluation of video game controllers
Fifteen participants completed a study comparing video game controllers for point-select tasks. We used a Fitts' law task, as per ISO 9241-9, using the Nintendo Wii Remote fo...
Daniel Natapov, Steven J. Castellucci, I. Scott Ma...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Rendering the effect of labradoescence
Labradorescence is a complex optical phenomenon that can be found in certain minerals, such as Labradorite or Spectrolite. Because of their unique colour properties, these mineral...
Andrea Weidlich, Alexander Wilkie
GD
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Algebraic Methods for Counting Euclidean Embeddings of Rigid Graphs
Abstract. The study of (minimally) rigid graphs is motivated by numerous applications, mostly in robotics and bioinformatics. A major open problem concerns the number of embeddings...
Ioannis Z. Emiris, Elias P. Tsigaridas, Antonios V...
GD
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
On Open Problems in Biological Network Visualization
Much of the data generated and analyzed in the life sciences can be interpreted and represented by networks or graphs. Network analysis and visualization methods help in investigat...
Mario Albrecht, Andreas Kerren, Karsten Klein, Oli...
FDG
2009
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Toward a domain-independent framework to automate scaffolding of task-based learning in digital games
This poster describes a framework that automatically generates learning support scaffolds to guide task-based learning. The aim is to combine the exploratory learning principles p...
James M. Thomas, R. Michael Young
EGH
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Understanding the efficiency of ray traversal on GPUs
We discuss the mapping of elementary ray tracing operations-acceleration structure traversal and primitive intersection--onto wide SIMD/SIMT machines. Our focus is on NVIDIA GPUs,...
Timo Aila, Samuli Laine