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ATAL
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Autonomous virtual humans and lower animals: from biomechanics to intelligence
The confluence of virtual reality and artificial life, an emerging discipline that spans the computational and biological sciences, has yielded synthetic worlds inhabited by reali...
Demetri Terzopoulos
VR
2010
IEEE
201views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Simulation of genetic inheritance in the generation of virtual characters
Nowadays, applications of virtual reality (VR) and computer games use human characters models with ever-increasing sophistication. Additional challenges are posed by applications,...
Roberto C. Cavalcante Vieira, Creto Augusto Vidal,...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
134views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Understanding and executing instructions for everyday manipulation tasks from the World Wide Web
Service robots will have to accomplish more and more complex, open-ended tasks and regularly acquire new skills. In this work, we propose a new approach to generating plans for su...
Moritz Tenorth, Daniel Nyga, Michael Beetz
ADAPTIVE
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Semantic Web Technologies for the Adaptive Web
Ontologies and reasoning are the key terms brought into focus by the semantic web community. Formal representation of ontologies in a common data model on the web can be taken as a...
Peter Dolog, Wolfgang Nejdl
VL
1999
IEEE
115views Visual Languages» more  VL 1999»
15 years 1 months ago
Virtual Worlds as Metaphors for Web Sites Exploration: Are They Effective?
This work discusses the effectiveness of desktop virtual reality as a metaphor for navigating through information in structured Web sites. The work is based on a model for informa...
Augusto Celentano