In the existing smart devices, the contents for each platform there are a unique development environment, and thus are developed in a suitable method and the development of language is also different. These issues cause additional costs when developing the contents on various target platforms it is impossible to make the contents compatible on the various devices or platforms. Proposed The Smar...

This paper discusses emerging problems of VHML – the Virtual Human Markup Language. VHML is XML based and allows interactive Virtual Humans to be directed so that human-virtual human interaction is more effective. The language addresses issues related to Facial and Body Animation, Dialogue Management, Text to Speech production, Emotional Representation plus Hyper / Multi Media information. Vari...

Lifelike animated agents present a challenging ongoing agenda for research. Such agent metaphors will only be widely applicable to on-line applications when there is a standardised way to map underlying engines with the visual presentation of the agents. This paper delineates functions and specifications of two mark-up languages for scripting the animation of virtual characters. These languages...

A system for human machine interaction is presented, that offers second language learners of Italian the possibility of assessing their competence by performing a map task, namely by guiding the a virtual follower through a map with written instructions in natural language. The underlying natural language processing algorithm is described, and the map authoring infrastructure is presented.

We introduce XMLVM, a Turing complete XML-based programming language based on a stack-based, virtual machine. We show how XMLVM can automatically be created from Java class-files and .NET’s Intermediate Language. While the programmer is never directly exposed to XMLVM, we provide tools based on XMLVM for tasks such as cross-language functional testing or code migration.

ODRA (Object Database for Rapid Application development) is an objectoriented database management system provided as an integrated programming tool for building various business and administration applications, including centralized and distributed systems, Web applications, service buses, virtual repositories, P2P networks, and so on. The paper presents general architecture of ODRA, its object...

Virtual communities offer a large potential for rich human interaction. While communication technology and the internet have become ubiquitous, a culture for social interaction in virtual communities is still evolving. This paper proposes a pattern language for helping newcomers to integrate and orient within a virtual community. It focusses on the process of getting to know each others and est...

The functionality of the recently announced Microsoft .NET system is founded on the capabilities of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI). Unlike some other recent systems based on virtual machines, the CLI was designed from the start to support a wide range of programming languages. It is also expected that ECMA standardization will make the CLI available on a wide range of computing platfo...

In this paper, we describe Rasa: an environment designed to augment, rather than replace, the work habits of its users. These work habits include drawing on Post-it notes using a symbolic language. Rasa observes and understands this language, assigning meaning simultaneously to objects in both the physical and virtual worlds. With Rasa, users rollout a paper map, register it, and move the augm...