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PRESENCE
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Pilot Evaluation Study of a Virtual Paracentesis Simulator for Skill Training and Assessment: The Beneficial Effect of Haptic Di
Effective, real-time training of health care professionals in invasive procedures is a challenging task. Furthermore, assessing in practice the acquisition of the dexterity and sk...
Costas S. Tzafestas, Kostas Birbas, Yiannis Koumpo...
DSRT
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Real Time P2P Network Simulation for Very Large Virtual Environment
The ever increasing speed of Internet connections has led to a point where it is actually possible for every end user to seamlessly share data on Internet. Peer-To-Peer (P2P) netw...
Romain Cavagna, Christian Bouville, Jér&oci...
ACMACE
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Motivated reinforcement learning for adaptive characters in open-ended simulation games
Recently a new generation of virtual worlds has emerged in which users are provided with open-ended modelling tools with which they can create and modify world content. The result...
Kathryn Elizabeth Merrick, Mary Lou Maher
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Speed Dating with an Affective Virtual Agent - Developing a Testbed for Emotion Models
In earlier studies, user involvement with an embodied software agent and willingness to use that agent were partially determined by the aesthetics of the design and the moral fiber...
Matthijs Pontier, Ghazanfar F. Siddiqui, Johan F. ...
JUCS
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
SimCon: A Tool to Support Rapid Evaluation of Smart Building Application Design using Context Simulation and Virtual Reality
: The promise of smart buildings (SBs) is a safer more productive environment for users and a more operationally efficient building for owners. The automation of building function ...
Kris McGlinn, Eleanor O'Neill, Alan Gibney, Declan...