This paper describes the design and implementation of a virtual agent that is capable of providing customers in a 3D online shop with advice. Based on a product knowledge base, a c...
As networked virtual environments gain increasing interest and acceptance in the field of Internet applications, a lot of effort is drawn in the optimization of their performance, ...
Group communication systems are powerful building blocks that facilitate the development of fault-tolerant distributed applications. Such systems generally run in an asynchronous ...
This study investigates how the psychological notion of affordance, known from human computer interface design, can be adopted for the analysis and design of communication of a use...
Hierarchical state machines are finite state machines whose states themselves can be other machines. In spite of their popularity in many modeling tools for software design, very l...