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CORR
2008
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
The Physical World as a Virtual Reality
This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the ph...
Brian Whitworth
AEI
2004
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14 years 9 months ago
Physical concept ontology for the knowledge intensive engineering framework
Knowledge intensive engineering aims at flexible applications of a variety of product life cycle knowledge, such as design, manufacturing, operations, maintenance, and recycling. ...
Masaharu Yoshioka, Yasushi Umeda, Hideaki Takeda, ...
AR
2011
14 years 4 months ago
A Direct Physical Interface for Navigation and Positioning of a Robotic Nursing Assistant
People often use direct physical contact to guide a person to a desired location (e.g., leading a child by the hand) or to adjust a person’s posture for a task (e.g., a dance in...
Tiffany L. Chen, Charles C. Kemp
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ICDE
2002
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
GADT: A Probability Space ADT for Representing and Querying the Physical World
Large sensor networks are being widely deployed for measurement, detection, and monitoring applications. Many of these applications involve database systems to store and process d...
Anton Faradjian, Johannes Gehrke, Philippe Bonnet
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CHI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Keepin' it real: pushing the desktop metaphor with physics, piles and the pen
We explore making virtual desktops behave in a more physically realistic manner by adding physics simulation and using piling instead of filing as the fundamental organizational s...
Anand Agarawala, Ravin Balakrishnan