Multi-stream/multi-site 3D video collaborative systems are promising as they enable remote users to interact in a 3D virtual space with a sense of co-presence. However, the decent...
: Since the invention of the electronic computer in the 1940s, technological development has resulted in dramatically increased processing power, storage capacity and communication...
Virtual machines can greatly simplify wide-area discomputing by lowering the level of abstraction to the benefit of both resource providers and users. Networking, however, can be ...
Abstract During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfac...
The Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group at Microsoft Research India seeks to address the needs and aspirations of people in the world's developing communities. Our re...