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CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
After access: challenges facing mobile-only internet users in the developing world
This study reports results of an ethnographic action research study, exploring mobile-centric internet use. Over the course of 13 weeks, eight women, each a member of a livelihood...
Shikoh Gitau, Gary Marsden, Jonathan Donner
IE
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Through the looking glass: game worlds as representations and views from elsewhere
This paper describes the rationale and subsequent development stages of a work in progress: a graffiti toolkit for rich spatial 3D environments and an actual world mnemonic collec...
J. Turner, Nicola J. Bidwell
HICSS
2009
IEEE
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14 years 5 days ago
Virtual Networks and Ethics: An Empirical Research in a Non-Governmental Organization
– This paper analyzes the opportunities offered by information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the related ethical issues they raise within the transparency practices of...
Antonino Vaccaro, Peter Madsen
IJVR
2007
171views more  IJVR 2007»
13 years 5 months ago
Real Time Rendering and Animation of Virtual Characters
—In this paper, we focus on the different aspects of real time visualization and animation of realistic virtual characters. The common goal for our research was to come up with s...
Yvonne Jung, Christian Knöpfle
IAT
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Engaging in a Conversation with Synthetic Agents along the Virtuality Continuum
Abstract During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfac...
Elisabeth André