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MMM
2005
Springer
185views Multimedia» more  MMM 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
Database Support for Haptic Exploration in Very Large Virtual Environments
The efficient management of complex objects has become an enabling technology for modern multimedia information systems as well as for many novel database applications. Unfortunat...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
139views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2006»
13 years 12 months ago
Projecting Computational Sense of Self: A Study of Transition in a Chronic Illness Online Community
We report on analysis of discussions in an online community of people with chronic illness using socio-cognitively motivated, automatically produced semantic spaces. The analysis ...
Robert McArthur, Peter Bruza, Jim Warren, Debbie K...
AIWORC
2000
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Building Virtual Communities for Research Collaboration
This paper discusses the problem of how to grow and evolve virtual infrastructures that support the development and growth of geographically dispersed research communities. It wil...
Monica M. C. Schraefel, Janet Ho, Mark H. Chignell...
GROUP
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Collaborative virtual environments for supporting learning communities: an experience of use
In this paper we present the experiences of usage of Viras, a collaborative virtual environment for social awareness support in educational settings. Collaborative Virtual environ...
Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, Monica Divitin...
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Multiagent Place-Based Virtual Communities for Pervasive Computing
This paper proposes a multiagent based virtual community as a new means to support pervasive computing services. We give a conceptual definition of the concept of Place-Based Virt...
Tuan Nguyen, Seng Wai Loke, Torab Torabi, Hongen L...