This paper is dedicated to virtual world exploration techniques. Automatic camera control is important in many fields as computational geometry, visual servoing, robot motion, grap...
Networked Virtual Environments (NVEs) are computer generated, synthetic worlds that allow simultaneous interactions of multiple participants. IP multicast and application layer mu...
This paper describes the development of a Virtual Environment (VE) for telling a traditional San story. The San are an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of southern Africa whose t...
We present algorithms that enable virtual objects to interact with and respond to virtual representations, avatars, of real objects. These techniques allow dynamic real objects, s...
Benjamin Lok, Samir Naik, Mary C. Whitton, Frederi...
The described dissertation focuses on social regulation of user behavior within virtual social spaces. A multi-year field study of two fantasy-based game MUDs (multi-user dungeons...