Sciweavers

2202 search results - page 146 / 441
» Challenges for Virtual Humans in Human Computing
Sort
View
OZCHI
2006
ACM
16 years 7 days ago
A table tennis game for three players
Table tennis is a game that can provide healthy exercise and is also a social pastime for players of all ages across the world. However, players have to be collocated to play, and...
Florian Mueller, Martin R. Gibbs
ICAC
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Experiences with scheduling and mapping games for adaptive distributed systems: summary
We apply the concept of “games with a purpose” to NPcomplete mapping and scheduling problems in distributed systems and report our experiences. The particular context is a sch...
Bin Lin, Peter A. Dinda
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
16 years 18 days ago
Shaping Event-Based Haptic Transients Via an Improved Understanding of Real Contact Dynamics
Haptic interactions with stiff virtual surfaces feel more realistic when a short-duration transient is added to the spring force at contact. But how should this event-based transi...
Jonathan Fiene, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
16 years 18 days ago
The Effect of Virtual Haptic Training on Real Surgical Drilling Proficiency
This sketch presents the design and preliminary results of a study that investigates the transference of motor skills learned in a haptic-enabled virtual environment to performanc...
Christopher Sewell, Nikolas H. Blevins, Sumanth Pe...
IVA
2007
Springer
16 years 13 days ago
Health Document Explanation by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of a virtual agent that explains health documents to patients. The prevalence and impact of low health literacy is presented as a motivation f...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Michael K. ...