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CONTEXT
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Utilizing Visual Attention for Cross-Modal Coreference Interpretation
In this paper, we describe an exploratory study to develop a model of visual attention that could aid automatic interpretation of exophors in situated dialog. The model is intended...
Donna K. Byron, Thomas Mampilly, Vinay Sharma, Tia...
SIGGRAPH
1997
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Interactive simulation of fire in virtual building environments
This paper describes the integration of the Berkeley Architectural Walkthrough Program with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s CFAST fire simulator. The integ...
Richard W. Bukowski, Carlo H. Séquin
AES
2008
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
Logical product models for automated scripting of process-level construction animations
Animation can add significant value to Discrete-Event Simulation by helping verify, validate, and accredit simulation analyses. This is particularly true in construction where typ...
Vineet R. Kamat
ACL
2012
13 years 1 days ago
Learning High-Level Planning from Text
Comprehending action preconditions and effects is an essential step in modeling the dynamics of the world. In this paper, we express the semantics of precondition relations extrac...
S. R. K. Branavan, Nate Kushman, Tao Lei, Regina B...
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CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Social gravity: a virtual elastic tether for casual, privacy-preserving pedestrian rendezvous
We describe a virtual “tether” for mobile devices that allows groups to have quick, simple and privacy-preserving meetups. Our design provides cues which allow dynamic coordin...
John Williamson, Simon Robinson, Craig Stewart, Ro...