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2003
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Modeling and Deformation of Arms and Legs Based on Ellipsoidal Sweeping
We present a new approach to the modeling and deformation of a human or virtual character’s arms and legs. Each limb is represented as a set of ellipsoids of varying size interp...
Dae-Eun Hyun, Seung-Hyun Yoon, Myung-Soo Kim, Bert...
HAPTICS
2002
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Measuring Just Noticeable Differences for Haptic Force Feedback: Implications for Rehabilitation
This paper describes preliminary work in the use of a virtual environment to derive just noticeable differences (JNDs) for force. Specifically, we look for thresholds of force sen...
Sonya Allin, Yoky Matsuoka, Roberta L. Klatzky
AGENTS
2000
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Dynamically altering agent behaviors using natural language instructions
Smart avatars are virtual human representations controlled by real people. Given instructions interactively, smart avatars can act as autonomous or reactive agents. During a real-...
Rama Bindiganavale, William Schuler, Jan M. Allbec...
CHI
1999
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Bridging Strategies for VR-Based Learning
A distributed immersive virtual environment was deployed as a component of a pedagogical strategy for teaching third grade children that the Earth is round. The displacement strat...
Thomas G. Moher, Andrew E. Johnson, Stellan Ohlsso...
ACMACE
2004
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
CamBall: augmented networked table tennis played with real rackets
We present a computer system for natural interaction in an augmented virtual environment, enabling people to play table tennis over Internet/LAN with real rackets. No special hard...
Charles Woodward, Petri Honkamaa, Jani Jäppin...