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HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Effects of Longitudinal Skin Stretch on the Perception of Friction
This work focuses on the relative importance of skin stretch imposed on the fingerpad on the perception of friction. Perceptual data is presented from two separate tests. The fi...
Nicholas D. Sylvester, William R. Provancher
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AFRIGRAPH
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Using an implicit min/max KD-tree for doing efficient terrain line of sight calculations
The generation of accurate Line of Sight (LOS) visibility information consumes significant resources in large scale synthetic environments such as many-on-many serious games and b...
Bernardt Duvenhage
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UIST
1997
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Usability Analysis of 3D Rotation Techniques
We report results from a formal user study of interactive 3D rotation using the mouse-driven Virtual Sphere and Arcball techniques, as well as multidimensional input techniques ba...
Ken Hinckley, Joe Tullio, Randy F. Pausch, Dennis ...
FAST
2009
14 years 10 months ago
BORG: Block-reORGanization for Self-optimizing Storage Systems
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of BORG, a self-optimizing storage system that performs automatic block reorganization based on the observed I/O wor...
Medha Bhadkamkar, Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Sam B...
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ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Can software agents influence human relations?: balance theory in agent-mediated communities
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida,...