Through a Louvre Window

Looking through a cranial window

Editorial Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease with 200–500 million new infections and up to one million deaths annually. 1 Half the world's population is at risk of being infected by one of the five Plasmodium parasite species causing malaria in humans. P. falciparum is responsible for the most fatal outcomes occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. 2 Infection can progress very fast from...

Monticello Through the Window

We present a case study in the use of virtual environment technology for cultural heritage applications, describing a collaborative effort to construct two cultural heritage exhibits for a five month exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art. To illustrate the factors that shape museum exhibit design, we explore the initial conceptual phase and discuss our reasons for choosing certain designs...

Scene Perception: The World Through a Window

Stabilized vision through a bleaching window.

The visibility of stimuli flickering at low temporal frequencies was studied with images viewed normally and when stabilized by a new technique (bleached-window stabilization) that produces perfectly stabilized images without attachment to the eye. Contrary to expectation, sensitivity to low-frequency flicker was higher in the stabilized than in the unstabilized case. Several controls exclude t...

See-through Window vs. Magic Mirror

There are two alternative display metaphors for Augmented Reality (AR) screens: a see-through window or a magic mirror. Commonly used by task-support AR applications, the see-through display has not been compared with the mirror display in terms of user’s task performance, even though the “mirror” hardware is more accessible to general users. We conducted a novel experiment to compare participa...