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HCI
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Adaptive Learning via Social Cognitive Theory and Digital Cultural Ecosystems
This paper will look at the human predisposition to oral tradition and its effectiveness as a learning tool to convey mission-critical information. After exploring the effectivenes...
Joseph Juhnke, Adam R. Kallish
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Haptic Models of an Automotive Turn-Signal Switch: Identification and Playback Results
Creating accurate haptic models of physical devices is critical to improving the realism and immersiveness of virtual environments. This paper addresses the problem of modeling th...
Mark B. Colton, John M. Hollerbach
ISVC
2007
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Simulation of Flexible Tubes in VR
Abstract. We present a Virtual Reality application enabling interactive, physically correct simulation of tube-like flexible objects. Our objective was to describe flexible objec...
Florian Mannuß, André Hinkenjann, Ger...
HAPTICS
2003
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Levels of Detail in Reducing Cost of Haptic Rendering: A Preliminary User Study
Haptic rendering complex objects in virtual environments is computationally intensive. In this paper we start the investigation of a new category of approach to reducing the compu...
Jian Zhang, Shahram Payandeh, John Dill
ISMAR
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
In-place 3D sketching for authoring and augmenting mechanical systems
We present a framework for authoring three-dimensional virtual scenes for Augmented Reality (AR) which is based on hand sketching. Sketches consisting of multiple components are u...
Oriel Bergig, Nate Hagbi, Jihad El-Sana, Mark Bill...