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ICALT
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Instruction Through The Ages: Building Pervasive Virtual Instructors for Life Long Learning
A pervasive virtual instructor is an artificially intelligent instructor that may appear transparent to the learner or appear in the form of a threedimensional graphical character...
Jayfus T. Doswell
BCSHCI
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Virtual world users evaluated according to environment design, task based and affective attention measures
This paper presents research that engages with virtual worlds for education users to understand design of these applications for their needs. An in-depth multi-method investigatio...
Breen Sweeney, Anne Adams
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Synchronous interaction among hundreds: an evaluation of a conference in an avatar-based virtual environment
This paper presents the first in-depth evaluation of a large multi-format virtual conference. The conference took place in an avatar-based 3D virtual world with spatialized audio,...
Thomas Erickson, N. Sadat Shami, Wendy A. Kellogg,...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Information spaces - building meeting rooms in virtual environments
Virtual worlds are typically designed to recreate the familiar physical world, both in the design of the spaces and the ways that people interact within them. In this paper we des...
Drew Harry, Judith S. Donath
HICSS
2010
IEEE
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14 years 4 days ago
Embodied Social Presence Theory
We discuss and reflect on the importance of embodiment, context, and spatial proximity as they pertain to the sense of presence obtained by individuals in virtual environments. We...
Brian E. Mennecke, Janea L. Triplett, Lesya M. Has...