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HAPTICS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Bringing Haptics to Second Life for Visually Impaired People
Potential applications of online virtual worlds are attracting the interest of many researchers around the world. One and perhaps the most famous example of such systems is Linden ...
Maurizio de Pascale, Sara Mulatto, Domenico Pratti...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Autonomous virtual humans and lower animals: from biomechanics to intelligence
The confluence of virtual reality and artificial life, an emerging discipline that spans the computational and biological sciences, has yielded synthetic worlds inhabited by reali...
Demetri Terzopoulos
IUI
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A virtual patient based on qualitative simulation
In this paper, we describe the development of a virtual human to be used for training applications in the field of cardiac emergencies. The system integrates AI techniques for sim...
Marc Cavazza, Altion Simo
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
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Modeling Group Dynamics in Virtual Worlds
In this study, we examine human social interactions within virtual worlds and address the question of how group interactions are affected by the surrounding game environment. To i...
Fahad Shah, Gita Reese Sukthankar, Chris Usher