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CHI
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Interactive 3D Sound Hyperstories for Blind Children
Interactive software is currently used for learning and entertainment purposes. This type of software is not very common among blind children because most computer games and elect...
Mauricio Lumbreras, Jaime Sánchez
IVA
2001
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Intelligent Virtual Agents for Education and Training: Opportunities and Challenges
Abstract. Interactive virtual worlds provide a powerful medium for experiential learning. Intelligent virtual agents can cohabit virtual worlds with people and facilitate such lear...
Jeff Rickel
IVA
2001
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The InViWo Toolkit: Describing Autonomous Virtual Agents and Avatars
The InViWo project aims at providing high-level intuitive tools to describe virtual worlds populated with “intelligent” creatures and avatars. For this purpose, we have define...
Nadine Richard, Philippe Codognet, Alain Grumbach
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Virtual institutions prototype
Virtual Institutions are Virtual Worlds with normative regulation of participants’ interactions. This paradigm is based on normative multiagent systems and is technologically su...
Anton Bogdanovych, Simeon J. Simoff, Marc Esteva
VR
2002
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Applications of Temporal Links: Recording and Replaying Virtual Environments
Temporal links allow recordings of multi-user sessions to be dynamically inserted into current virtual worlds in a flexible and principled way. This paper explores key application...
Chris Greenhalgh, Martin Flintham, Jim Purbrick, S...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Enhancing K-12 education with alice programming adventures
This paper describes the integration of the Alice 3D virtual worlds environment into many disciplines in elementary school, middle school and high school. We have developed a wide...
Susan H. Rodger, Maggie Bashford, Lana Dyck, Jenna...
DIGITALCITIES
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Visualizing Social Patterns in Virtual Environments on a Local and Global Scale
Today a wide variety of virtual worlds, cities, gaming environments etc. exist and become part of life of their human inhabitants. However, our understanding on how technology infl...
Katy Börner, Shashikant Penumarthy, Bonnie Je...
VRML
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Guiding visitors of Web3D worlds through automatically generated tours
Many Web3D sites do not offer sufficient assistance to (especially novice) users in navigating the virtual world, find objects/places of interests, and learn how to interact with ...
Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon, Lucio Ieronutti
NETGAMES
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Mobility and stability evaluation in wireless multi-hop networks using multi-player games
Plenty of work was contributed in the field of protocol design and performance evaluation of multi-hop networks. It is generally accepted that mobility has a huge impact on the p...
Frank H. P. Fitzek, Leonardo Badia, Michele Zorzi,...
ICMI
2004
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Collaboration in parallel worlds
We present a novel paradigm for human to human asymmetric collaboration. There is a need for people at geographically separate locations to seamlessly collaborate in real time as ...
Ashutosh Morde, Jun Hou, S. Kicha Ganapathy, Carlo...