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DEFORM
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Constructing Virtual Human Life Simulations
This paper describes an approach to construct interactive virtual environments, which are suitable for the development of artificial virtual human life simulations. Our main goal i...
Marcelo Kallmann, Etienne de Sevin, Daniel Thalman...
CSCWD
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Educational technology for collaborative virtual environments
3D information systems for education must be investigated and adopted for a more involving form of learning. It is in this context that we propose the use of Second Life as an env...
Marcio Cunha, Alberto Barbosa Raposo, Hugo Fuks
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Simulation of sensor-based tracking in Second Life
This paper describes "Second Life" as a novel type of testbed and simulation environment for sensor-based applications. Second Life is a popular virtual online world tha...
Boris Brandherm, Sebastian Ullrich, Helmut Prendin...
HAPTICS
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 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...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Real ethics in a virtual world
This paper investigates the ethics of the appearance and behavior of avatars in massively multi-user online communities, in particular, avatars created for virtual business intera...
Victoria McArthur