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HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
The Effect of Virtual Haptic Training on Real Surgical Drilling Proficiency
This sketch presents the design and preliminary results of a study that investigates the transference of motor skills learned in a haptic-enabled virtual environment to performanc...
Christopher Sewell, Nikolas H. Blevins, Sumanth Pe...
IVA
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Health Document Explanation by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of a virtual agent that explains health documents to patients. The prevalence and impact of low health literacy is presented as a motivation f...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Michael K. ...
GROUP
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Proactive behaviour may lead to failure in virtual project-based collaborative learning
This paper argues that proactive behaviour, caused by high engagement and motivation of the learners, may lead to failure of collaborative learning. By examining empirical data fr...
Pernille Bjørn, Morten Hertzum
ICRA
1998
IEEE
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15 years 8 months ago
Vibration Feedback Models for Virtual Environments
Vibrations can significantly enhance touch perception for virtual environment applications with minimal design complexity and cost. In order to create realistic vibrotactile feedb...
Allison M. Okamura, Stanford Dennerlein, Robert D....
UIST
1993
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
A Toolset for Navigation in Virtual Environments
Maintaining knowledge of current position and orientation is frequently a problem for people in virtual environments. In this paper we present a toolset of techniques based on pri...
Rudolph P. Darken, John L. Sibert