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PRESENCE
1998
108views more  PRESENCE 1998»
15 years 6 months ago
Navigating Large-Scale 'Desk-Top' Virtual Buildings: Effects of Orientation Aids and Familiarity
Two experiments investigated components of participants’ spatial knowledge when they navigated large-scale ‘‘virtual buildings’’ using ‘‘desk-top’’ (i.e., nonimm...
Roy A. Ruddle, Stephen J. Payne, Dylan M. Jones
DSN
2011
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Resource and virtualization costs up in the cloud: Models and design choices
—Virtualization offers the potential for cost-effective service provisioning. For service providers who make significant investments in new virtualized data centers in support of...
Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova
SMC
2007
IEEE
130views Control Systems» more  SMC 2007»
16 years 1 months ago
Simulation framework for training chest tube insertion using virtual reality and force feedback
—Most virtual reality simulators are designed for complex medical procedures, such as laparoscopic surgery. While important, these simulators are of use for only a subset of spec...
Nader S. Raja, John A. Schleser, William P. Norman...
CDVE
2007
Springer
137views Visualization» more  CDVE 2007»
16 years 27 days ago
A Virtual Interactive Community Platform Supporting Education for Long-Term Sick Children
Analysis of existing ICT-based solutions for the education of long-term ill children reveal several weaknesses with respect to social and cooperative involvement, cost of developme...
Pieter Jorissen, Fabian Di Fiore, Gert Vansichem, ...
DSOM
2007
Springer
16 years 27 days ago
Virtualization-Based Techniques for Enabling Multi-tenant Management Tools
As service providers strive to improve the quality and efficiency of their IT (information technology) management services, the need to adopt a standard set of tools and processes...
Chang-Hao Tsai, Yaoping Ruan, Sambit Sahu, Anees S...