Nowadays, serious games are one of the biggest existing industries and it is still growing steadily in many sectors. Particularly, the use of virtual worlds and serious games in education is growing. This paper introduces the development of a serious game in an immersive learning environment for teaching Civics. The work’s idea is to develop a game to motivate, educate and train learners on civ...

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 paper introduces Distributed PaulingWorld, a Distributed Virtual Environment application that supports collaborative visualization of molecular structures among multiple users within the same virtual environment. All the participants in the virtual environment have the same level of interaction in the application. In the application, a virtual menu that is attached to the left hand of the ...

In this investigation, we examined how the order in which people experience real and virtual environments influences their distance estimates. Participants made two sets of distance estimates in one of the following conditions: (1) real environment first, virtual environment second; (2) virtual environment first, real environment second; (3) real environment first, real environment second; or (...

Our work ponders on collaborative interactions in Collaborative Virtual Environments for Training, with an emphasis on collaborative interactions between Real Humans and Virtual Humans working as a team. We put forward a new model of collaborative interaction and a set of tools that describes and defines such interactions.

In this paper, we present guidelines for designing virtual elements that can be used for developing intelligent virtual environments, i.e. 3D environments with autonomous agents. We consider three kinds of virtual elements (rigid objects, smart objects, and autonomous agents) and their functionalities. These functionalities let them to interact one to each other. This approach allows for dynami...