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CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 days ago
Human-Currency Interaction: learning from virtual currency use in China
What happens when the domains of HCI design and money intersect? This paper presents analyses from an ethnographic study of virtual currency use in China to discuss implications f...
Scott D. Mainwaring, Yang Wang 0005
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
An Experimentally Verified Model of the Perceived 'Coldness' of Objects
In this paper, a numerical model of the thermal process of touching an object is described. The model takes into account the object geometry and temperature, the thermal parameter...
Wouter M. Bergmann Tiest
HAPTICS
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
A Palm-Worn Haptic Display for Bimanual Operations in Virtual Environments
We propose a wearable haptic display that indicates the pressure and vibration on the palm for bimanual operations in virtual reality environments. This system aims to provide the ...
Kouta Minamizawa, Sho Kamuro, Naoki Kawakami, Susu...
OZCHI
2009
ACM
15 years 6 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
CG
2004
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Where computers disappear, virtual humans appear
In this paper, we survey the role of virtual humans (or embodied conversational agents) in smart and ambient intelligence environments. Research in this area can profit from resea...
Anton Nijholt