Combining augmented reality (AR) environments with immersive virtual environments (VEs) can reduce interaction gaps and provide embodied interactions in distributed collaborative works. It can also provide many opportunities and degrees of freedom for collaboration in both real and virtual worlds. A gesture based AR environment provides variety of input and output modalities to networked and di...

The projection of multi-layered remote sensing and geophysical survey data into a 3D immersive virtual reality environment for noninvasive archaeological exploration is described. Topography, ultra-high resolution satellite imagery, magnetic, electromagnetic, and ground penetrating radar surveys of an archaeological site are visualized as a single data set within the six-sided (including floor)...

For adults, immersive environments for collaboration and play are expensive computer-intensive novelties. For children, they are commonplace but computer-free: kindergarten classrooms and playgrounds. Kids know how to develop, and spontaneously learn from imaginary play. If children were provided with robust, intuitive, and inexpensive computer-enabled environments they would thrive, learn, and...

While immersive experiences mediated through near-eye displays are still a relatively immature medium, there millions of consumer devices in use. The level awareness the forms interface and media will vary enormously across potential audience. Users might own personal or encounter systems various venues. We introduce term competence to refer general practical knowledge skills that users accumul...

I would like to propose going beyond the tactile experience and extend the tangibility to other senses. Imagine a way to interact with an information environment and explore multiple layers of time and space. Spatial exploration is immersive and multidimensional. So, instead of using only a finger as input, the full body acts as pivot point to produce augmented realities, blending the cyberspac...

Projection-augmented models are a type of non-immersive, coincident haptic and visual display that uses a physical model as a three dimensional screen for projected visual information. Supporting two sensory modalities consistently should create a strong sense of the object’s existence. However, conventional measures of presence have only been defined for displays that surround and isolate a us...

Thanks to the rapid development of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), users can control and communicate with external devices without performing a single muscle movement. BCIs allow this by detecting the control and communication signals directly at their source, i.e. the brain. This renders BCIs highly applicable in different domains and of special importance to users with physical impairments....