Wiley–Boone Aviary: A Bird Garden

The AVIARY VR-system. A Prototype Implementation

The AVIARY project at the University of Manchester has sought to understand the needs of a mature VR-based environment in which diverse applications co-exist, and in which the need for perceptual coherency of the environment is also crucial. A novel feature of AVIARY is that multiple, worlds may concurrently exist, each with its own set of laws which may be tailored to suit particular applicati...

Towards completion of the early Eocene aviary: A new bird group from the Messel oil shale (Aves, Eopachypterygidae, fam. nov.).

A new avian species is described from the early Eocene Messel fossil site in Germany. Eopachypteryx praeterita, gen. et sp. nov. is a small bird and exhibits a characteristic morphology with a short and robust beak, a distinctively shaped coracoid, stout humerus, robust pectoral girdle skeleton, and short hindlimbs. Although similarities to the Paleogene Eocuculus as well as to some extant tell...

Garden Bird Feeding: Insights and Prospects from a North-South Comparison of This Global Urban Phenomenon

1 Centre for Ornithology, School of Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 2 Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA, 4 Environmental Futures Resear...

Wire(less)tapping in the Aviary

AVIARY – A Generic Virtual Reality Interface for Real Applications

This paper introduces the work of the Advanced Interfaces Group at the University of Manchester, which is applying recent innovations in the field of human-computer interaction to important realworld applications, whose present human-computer interfaces are difficult and unnatural. We begin with an analysis of the problems of existing interfaces, and present an overview of our proposed solution...