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ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Using rituals to express cultural differences in synthetic characters
There is currently an ongoing demand for richer Intelligent Virtual Environments (IVEs) populated with social intelligent agents. As a result, many agent architectures are taking ...
Samuel Mascarenhas, João Dias, Nuno Afonso,...
EXPCS
2007
15 years 10 months ago
The user in experimental computer systems research
Experimental computer systems research typically ignores the end-user, modeling him, if at all, in overly simple ways. We argue that this (1) results in inadequate performance eva...
Peter A. Dinda, Gokhan Memik, Robert P. Dick, Bin ...
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Characterizing User Mobility in Second Life
In this work we present a measurement study of user mobility in Second Life. We first discuss different techniques to collect user traces and then focus on results obtained using ...
Chi-Anh La, Pietro Michiardi
SENSYS
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Meeting ecologists' requirements with adaptive data acquisition
Ecologists instrument ecosystems to collect time series representing the evolution in time and space of relevant abiotic and biotic factors. Sensor networks promise to improve on ...
Marcus Chang, Philippe Bonnet
AVI
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Visual design of service deployment in complex physical environments
In this paper we discuss the problem of deploying appliances for interactive services in complex physical environments using a knowledge based approach to define the relations bet...
Augusto Celentano, Fabio Pittarello