Youth gangs are on the rise. Today they threaten virtually every major city, many small communities, and even rural areas. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to helping communities overcome this problem, and an essential first step is understanding the factors that contribute to the growth of youth gangs and the relationship of gang membership to deli...

1 Nagoya University Graduate School of Human Informatics E-mail: [email protected] Interactive conversational characters are increasingly being explored in online virtual environments to instruct, guide, advice and perform tasks on user’s behalf. Online museums could effectively explore such “life-like” characters as tourguides to their web-sites and virtual exhibitions. Our research de...

We propose steering behavior model to simulate virtual characters (NPC) which walk around in virtual exhibition environment and see exhibits one by one just like humans do. Steering behavior model of such environment has its significance in that it would raise the reality level of virtually recreated exhibition space such as museums or city area with points of attraction. However, currently ava...

This paper presents the digital interactive experience system of the Jing-Hang Grand Canal of China and introduces some related work. The purpose of this system is to attract users’ interests in the history and culture of the Jing-Hang Grand Canal. We provide users with virtual exhibition and virtual exploring environment which make it possible that the disappeared ancient scenes and stories re...

This project is the construction of academic report comprehensive building Central Youth League School. The main function room, including an 800-person lecture hall, a 300-person multi-function 500-person exhibition etc., and three underground floors. There are floors above ground, one floor partially high. 12.8, 13.8, 15.7, 18.2, 18.6, 20.8, 27.8 meters in sub-regions roof structure elevation....

After a diaspora lasting three years, the Wellcome Institute has been reunited under the roof of 183 Euston Road, in the refurbished Wellcome Building. The Library is still located on the second and third floors, with its reading room a central feature. The Library has expanded, however, with more open shelving for its reference collection and modern printed books, and a separate area (The Poyn...

Steel structures have been widely used in large public venues and super-high-rise buildings due to their strong spatial flexibility, good seismic performance, beautiful appearance. For with high lighting requirements, such as shopping malls, stadiums, exhibition halls, a super-large day-lighting roof light-transmitting steel is be designed on top. However, it impossible directly hoist cranes bu...

Exhibition shows are essentially information exchange hubs. Their success relies on the quantity and quality of interaction of the involved parties: exhibitors, visitors, and organizers. The introduction of advanced wireless applications in the exhibition industry is a major opportunity for improving interaction and communications, thus leveraging the value proposition of exhibition services. T...

The 1997 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Mobile Robot Exhibition was held in conjunction with the 1997 AAAI Mobile Robot Competition at the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97). Twenty-one robotic teams participated, making this the largest robot exhibition ever. See figure 1 for a photo of the exhibition participants. Since the first Mobil...