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CA
1999
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Virtual People: Capturing Human Models to Populate Virtual Worlds
In this paper a new technique is introduced for automatically building recognisable moving 3D models of individual people. Realistic modelling of people is essential for advanced ...
Adrian Hilton, Daniel Beresford, Thomas Gentils, R...
JCHE
2010
120views more  JCHE 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
The virtual campus of the future: stimulating and simulating civic actions in a virtual world
This paper presents a pre-orientation program for incoming college students, Active Citizenship through Technology (ACT), that engaged students in civic dialogue early in their aca...
Marina Umaschi Bers, Clement Chau
CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Virtually There: Exploring Proximity and Homophily in a Virtual World
— Virtual space eliminates the constraints of physical distances on communication and interaction. In this study, we examine the impact of offline proximity and homophily of play...
Yun Huang, Cuihua Shen, Dmitri Williams, Noshir S....
COSIT
2009
Springer
133views GIS» more  COSIT 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
SeaTouch: A Haptic and Auditory Maritime Environment for Non Visual Cognitive Mapping of Blind Sailors
Abstract. Navigating consists of coordinating egocentric and allocentric spatial frames of reference. Virtual environments have afforded researchers in the spatial community with ...
Mathieu Simonnet, Dan Jacobson, Stephane Vieillede...
OZCHI
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
You can be too rich: mediated communication in a virtual world
Internet-based virtual worlds (VWs) have emerged as a popular form of collaborative virtual environment. Most have offered only text chat for user communication; however several V...
Greg Wadley, Martin R. Gibbs, Nicolas Ducheneaut