We present a discussion of the potential and anticipated impact of immersive VR touch workbenches for creative 3D work in engineering and art practice. The discussion highlights three recent interaction techniques developed for these applications. Based on this experience, we formulate a set of guidelines and domain specific challenges to guide future practitioners.

The nature of moral action versus moral judgment has been extensively debated in numerous disciplines. We introduce Virtual Reality (VR) moral paradigms examining the action individuals take in a high emotionally arousing, direct action-focused, moral scenario. In two studies involving qualitatively different populations, we found a greater endorsement of utilitarian responses-killing one in or...

The present research demonstrates that the visual perspective--own first-person versus observer's third-person--people use to picture themselves engaging in a potential future action affects their self-perceptions and subsequent behavior. On the eve of the 2004 U.S. presidential election, registered voters in Ohio were instructed to use either the first-person or the third-person perspective to...

The Live Birth Information System (SINASC) was implemented in 1990 for the purpose of providing information about the live-birth characteristics for the establishment of specific health indicators. This work evaluates the information quality of SINASC in relation to its data completeness and coverage for five municipalities from the State of Acre from 2005 to 2010. Lack of information (not fill...

Research was undertaken to evaluate alternative methods of selecting a sample of eligible respondents for the National Medical Expenditure Survey (NM ES) from the National Health Interview Survey (N HIS). This report presents estimates of the effects of alternative design options, obtained by statistical modeling techniques, for linking the NMES with the NH IS, The estimated survey costs for al...

T he 1999 Purdue Land Values Survey indicates that the value of an acre of average bare Indiana cropland was $2,092 per acre in June 1999. This was $63 less than the value reported in June 1998, a 2.9 percent decrease. This decline ends 11 consecutive years of increasing values. Cash rents declined from 1998 to 1999 on average land by a little less than two percent to $110 per acre. This is the...

Many colleges throughout the nation consider the experience of its undergraduates in classes, research, residence halls, dining, and community involvement. It seems that the standard method to collect data from the students is to have them complete surveys. It is the most efficient way to systematically collect information, especially with the size of some schools. It is believed that when eval...

The Standard Model does not provide a very good fit to the most recent precision electroweak data from LEP, due primarily to the observed branching ratios for Z decay to bb̄ and cc̄. The possibility that an extension of the Standard Model with low-energy supersymmetry can improve the agreement between data and theory is considered. Invited Talk at the 1995 International Europhysics Conference on ...