Bridging virtual and real worlds: enhancing outlying clustered value creations

Tangible Images: Bridging the Real and Virtual Worlds

In this paper we describe our efforts to create tangible imaging systems that provide rich virtual representations of real-world surfaces. Tangible imaging systems have three main properties: 1) the images produced must be visually realistic; 2) the images must be responsive to user interaction; and 3) the images must be situated, appearing to be integrated with their environments. Our current ...

Contextware: Bridging Physical and Virtual Worlds

Today a variety of terms – like Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing, Invisible Computing, Ambient Intelligence, Sentient Computing, Post-PC Computing, etc. – refers to new challenges and paradigms for the interaction among users and mobile and embedded computing devices. Fertilized by a vast quantitative growth of the Internet over the past years and a growing availability of wireless com...

Virtual Worlds, Real Rules

Conversational agents in virtual worlds: Bridging disciplines

This paper examines the effective deployment of conversational agents in virtual worlds from the perspective of researchers/practitioners in cognitive psychology, computing science, learning technologies and engineering. From a cognitive perspective, the major challenge lies in the coordination and management of the various channels of information associated with conversation/ communication and...

Real Mirrors Reflecting Virtual Worlds

This paper introduces the idea of using real mirrors in combination with rear-projection systems for the purpose of interacting with and navigating through the displayed information. Subsequently a derived application is described. For this, we use a hand-held planar mirror and address two fundamental problems of applying head tracking with rear-projection planes: the limited viewing volume of ...