Virtual humans offer an exciting and powerful potential for rich interactive experiences. Fully embodied virtual humans are growing in capability, ease, and utility. As a result, they present an opportunity for expanding research into burgeoning virtual patient medical applications. In this paper we consider the ways in which one may go about building and applying virtual human technology to th...

With the availability of round-the-clock labor and inexpensive programming in India and other countries, software development projects increasingly take place in a virtual team setting. Adaptive structuration theory (AST) describes the process by which groups, such as virtual teams, use advanced information technologies. According to AST, people, technology and task structures interact, resulti...

Virtual technology can be a useful tool for designing models of healthy urban environments. The resilience and sustainability in any urban environment involves the establishment and maintenance of the health of its citizens. The well-being of youth, the future workforce of every society, is a highly important consideration in the design of cities. Cities are only truly sustainable when the work...

This report provides an insight into the technology of virtual prototyping and its application in the field of design, engineering, production and product development. The report reviews the concept of virtual and digital prototyping, discusses the historical developments and technology, explores some of the wider implications and benefits of the technology, details specific industry applicatio...

Information technology is one of the largest and most important human achievements in the present era whose influence on most human activities is undeniable. The traditional education system is being affected by the information technology and it is now turning into an electronic education system. One of the newest issues in the field of electronic education is the effects of web page a...

This paper considers the development of virtual communities focusing upon virtual religion and its impact on humanity. It is important that religion is expressed communally and socially, and the Internet has provided a new community context for religiosity, linking people from geographically, socially, and culturally disparate backgrounds, facilitating interactivity as never before in an intrig...

This study presents the application of augmented reality technology in food professional education, combining with the current situation of applying virtual reality education, analyzes the problems existing in the virtual reality application in food professional education, puts forward some suggestions and finally prospects the developing trend of the technology of virtual reality now.

The current article approaches interaction between architecture and machine in one of its several dimensions, namely computer technology and virtual reality. We begin with an introduction to complexity sciences and continue with a brief description of Systems Theory and Cybernetics, leading to the notion of virtual reality and cyberspace. The approach to the virtual architecture presented in th...