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CW
2005
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Place Metaphors in Educational Cyberworlds: a Virtual Campus Case Study
In the recent years, the usage of 3D cyberworlds for educational purposes has increased. The metaphors behind the design of virtual places are quite diverse, from replication of r...
Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, Alexei Sourin,...
WEBNET
2000
15 years 7 months ago
Using Multi-user Distributed Virtual Environments in Education
: On-line learning is one of the emerging needs of the information age. Access to education is going to become crucial for the success of our information society. Therefore a lot o...
Christos Bouras, Alexandros Philopoulos, Thrasyvou...
ICDE
1998
IEEE
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16 years 7 months ago
The Alps at Your Fingertips: Virtual Reality and Geoinformation Systems
We advocate a desktop virtual reality (VR) interface to a geographic information system (GIS). The navigational capability to explore large topographic scenes is a powerful metaph...
Renato Pajarola, Thomas Ohler, Peter Stucki, Korne...
SIGGRAPH
1997
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Quantifying immersion in virtual reality
Virtual Reality (VR) has generated much excitement but little formal proof that it is useful. Because VR interfaces are difficult and expensive to build, the computer graphics co...
Randy F. Pausch, Dennis Proffitt, George H. Willia...
AAAI
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Branching Storylines in Virtual Reality Environments for Leadership Development
Simulation-based training is increasingly being used within the military to practice and develop the skills of successful soldiers. For the skills associated with successful milit...
Andrew Gordon, Michael van Lent, Martin Van Velsen...