PRESENCE
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Few HMD-based virtual environment systems display a rendering of the user's own body. Subjectively, this often leads to a sense of disembodiment in the virtual world. We expl...
PSYCHNOLOGY
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Viewers (N = 261) evaluated and chose avatars to represent them online. The viewers rated 92 potential avatars that were manipulated along three dimensions – sex, humanness, and...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. The human ability to express and recognize emotions plays an important role in face-to-face communication, and as technology advances it will be increasingly important fo...
TOG
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Real-time control of three-dimensional avatars is an important problem in the context of computer games and virtual environments. Avatar animation and control is difficult, howeve...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Blinking is one of the most important cues for forming person impressions. We focus on the eye blinking rate of avatars and investigate its effect on viewer subjective impressions...
CISIS
2009
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2009
IEEE
The idea of the 3D Web as a global scale Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) currently is very popular and a lot of research work is done in this field. In the course of the Hy...
DIGRA
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
Communication between players in networked computer games is often inadequately implemented. The games do not exploit the full potential of using different forms of communication ...
ECAI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
It is possible to model avatars that learn to simulate object manipulations and other complex actions. A number of applications may benefit from this technique including safety, e...
IROS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
- Interactive avatar control means a control mechanism using AI techniques to improve user navigation efficiency as well as visual realism in a 3D virtual environment. This paper r...
IWIC
2007
Springer
2007
Springer
Cross-Cultural Study of Avatars' Facial Expressions and Design Considerations Within Asian Countries
13 years 11 months ago
Avatars are increasingly used to express our emotions in our online communications. Such avatars are used based on the assumption that avatar expressions are interpreted universall...