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ICPP
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
A Scalable Architecture for Crowd Simulation: Implementing a Parallel Action Server
Crowd simulation can be considered as a special case of Virtual Environments where avatars are intelligent agents instead of user-driven entities. These applications require both ...
Guillermo Vigueras, Miguel Lozano, Carlos Perez, J...
UCS
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Activity Recognition Based on Intra and Extra Manipulation of Everyday Objects
Recognizing activities based on an actor’s interaction with everyday objects is an important research approach within ubiquitous computing. We present a recognition approach whic...
Dipak Surie, Fabien Lagriffoul, Thomas Pederson, D...
VRML
1997
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
V-COLLIDE: Accelerated Collision Detection for VRML
Collision detection is essential for many applications involving simulation, behavior and animation. However, it has been regarded as a computationallydemanding task and is often ...
Thomas C. Hudson, Ming C. Lin, Jonathan D. Cohen, ...
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Human Performance in a Knob-Turning Task
Knob turning is a common task that should influence the design of human-machine interfaces such as prosthetic arms, teleoperated robots, and virtual environments. This study exam...
Netta Gurari, Allison M. Okamura
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Multi-Fingered Haptic Interface Robot Handling Plural Tool Devices
Tool-type haptic interfaces such as scissors are used to present force feeling for surgical training in virtual reality environment. Presentation of force feelings of plural tools...
Haruhisa Kawasaki, Tetsuya Mouri, Sho Ikenohata, Y...