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CHI
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
The virtual raft project: a mobile interface for interacting with communities of autonomous characters
This paper presents a novel and intuitive paradigm for interacting with autonomous animated characters. This paradigm utilizes a mobile device to allow people to transport charact...
Bill Tomlinson, Man Lok Yau, Jessica O'Connell, Ks...
VR
2008
IEEE
128views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2008»
16 years 1 months ago
Showing Users the Way: Signs in Virtual Worlds
In this paper, we report the results of a pilot study designed to evaluate the impact of signs as navigation aids in virtual worlds. Test subjects were divided into three groups (...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Stacy Rilea
EUROPAR
2007
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
Virtualization Techniques in Network Emulation Systems
The continuous increase of computational power has made viable the implementation of more and more sophisticated virtualization techniques. The use of virtualization in cluster env...
Roberto Canonico, Pasquale Di Gennaro, Vittorio Ma...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
16 years 20 days ago
A virtual network (ViNe) architecture for grid computing
This paper describes a virtual networking approach for Grids called ViNe. It enables symmetric connectivity among Grid resources and allows existing applications to run unmodified...
Maurício O. Tsugawa, José A. B. Fort...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
16 years 20 days ago
Executing MPI programs on virtual machines in an Internet sharing system
Internet sharing systems aim at federating and utilizing distributed computing resources across the Internet. This paper presents a user-level virtual machine (VM) approach to MPI...
Zhelong Pan, Xiaojuan Ren, Rudolf Eigenmann, Dongy...