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VRST
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Navigation aids for multi-floor virtual buildings: a comparative evaluation of two approaches
Virtual environments (VEs) very often contain buildings that have to be navigated by users. In the literature, several navigation aids based on maps have been proposed for VEs, bu...
Luca Chittaro, Subramanian Venkataraman
VR
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Showing Users the Way: Signs in Virtual Worlds
In this paper, we report the results of a pilot study designed to evaluate the impact of signs as navigation aids in virtual worlds. Test subjects were divided into three groups (...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Stacy Rilea
HPCA
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Comparative Evaluation of Fine- and Coarse-Grain Approaches for Software Distributed Shared Memory
Symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) connected with low-latency networks provide attractive building blocks for software distributed shared memory systems. Two distinct approaches hav...
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Leonidas ...
BMCBI
2008
150views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Natural Language Processing in aid of FlyBase curators
Background: Despite increasing interest in applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) to biomedical text, whether this technology can facilitate tasks such as database curation re...
Nikiforos Karamanis, Ruth Seal, Ian Lewin, Peter M...
AFRIGRAPH
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Impact of large displays on virtual reality task performance
A better understanding of how users perform virtual reality tasks may help to build better virtual reality interfaces. In this study, we concentrate on the impact of large display...
Florence Tyndiuk, V. Lespinet-Najib, Gwenola Thoma...