Publications related to Interactive fiction

Visualization, Interactive Handling and Simulation of Molecules in Commodity Augmented Reality in Web Browsers Using moleculARweb's Virtual Modeling Kits

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata, Fabio Jose Cortes Rodriguez, Lucien Fabrice Krapp

moleculARweb (https://molecularweb.epfl.ch) began as a website for education and outreach in chemistry and structural biology through augmented reality (AR) content that runs in the web browsers of regular devices like smartphones, tablets, and computers. ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2022

Smart Toys plus plus : Exploiting the Social Connectedness for Playing and Learning

Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür

Under the umbrella of smart toys, a myriad of interactive systems have addressed a variety of scenarios considering entertainment, education, sustainability, social and environmental learning through play. Tangibles and small toy robots prevail; but intera ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Computational tool for stock-constrained design of structures

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting

Designing structures from reused elements is becoming an increasingly important design task for structural engineers as it has potential to significantly reduce adverse environmental impacts of building structures. To allow for a broad application of this ...

2021

A Too to Design Interactive Characters Based on Embodied Cognition

Ronan Boulic, Joan Llobera Mahy

Creating interactive characters is one of the most challenging tasks of videogame design. In order to facilitate such an endeavor, we introduce a decisional and behavior synthesis architecture integrated in the game engine Unity3D. A distinguishing feature ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Team Policy Learning For Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Ali H. Sayed, Sulaiman A S A E Alghunaim, Lucas Cesar Eduardo Cassano

This work presents a fully distributed algorithm for learning the optimal policy in a multi-agent cooperative reinforcement learning scenario. We focus on games that can only be solved through coordinated team work. We consider situations in which K player ...

IEEE2019

Synergistic but independent: The role of corticospinal and alternate motor fibers for residual motor output after stroke

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel

Background Brain imaging has shown that not only the cortico-spinal tract (CST), but also alternate corticofugal motor fibers (aMF), such as the cortico-rubro-spinal and cortico-reticulo-spinal tract, influence residual motor output after stroke. So far, s ...

2017

Impact of interactivity on the assessment of quality of experience for light field content

Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Rerabek, Irene Viola

The recent advances in light field imaging are changing the way in which visual content is captured, processed and consumed. Storage and delivery systems for light field images rely on efficient compression algorithms. Such algorithms must additionally tak ...

2017

Interactive design exploration for constrained meshes

Mark Pauly, Sofien Bouaziz, Bailin Deng, Yuliy Gennadievich Schwartzburg, Mario Moacir Deuss, Alexandre Kaspar

In architectural design, surface shapes are commonly subject to geometric constraints imposed by material, fabrication or assembly. Rationalization algorithms can convert a freeform design into a form feasible for production, but often require design modif ...

2015

Combining Content with User Preferences for Non-Fiction Multimedia Recommendation: A Study on TED Lectures

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Nikolaos Pappas

This paper introduces a new dataset and compares several methods for the recommendation of non-fiction audio visual material, namely lectures from the TED website. The TED dataset contains 1,149 talks and 69,023 profiles of users, who have made more than 1 ...

Springer2015

Experience Catalysts And Architecture Towards a New Tradition

Jeffrey Huang, Selena Savic, Andrew James Sempere, Jens Badura

This paper describes two research projects in the field of interactive architecture, both examples of experience catalysts; Settings which allow new insights in the aesthetic constitution and perception of environments. This term can be thought of as somew ...

Porto: FAUP Publicações2013

Exploring Local Modifications for Constrained Meshes

Mark Pauly, Sofien Bouaziz, Bailin Deng, Yuliy Gennadievich Schwartzburg, Mario Moacir Deuss

Mesh editing under constraints is a challenging task with numerous applications in geometric modeling, industrial design, and architectural form finding. Recent methods support constraint-based exploration of meshes with fixed connectivity, but commonly la ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Structural Role of RKS Motifs in Chromatin Interactions: A Molecular Dynamics Study of HP1 Bound to a Variably Modified Histone Tail

Efthimios Kaxiras

The current understanding of epigenetic signaling assigns a central role to post-translational modifications that occur in the histone tails. In this context, it has been proposed that methylation of K9 and phosphorylation of S10 in the tail of histone H3 ...

2012

Interactive multiview video system with low decoding complexity

Pascal Frossard, Thomas Maugey

Research in multimedia is always investigating new ways of improving the immersive experience of the users. One current solution consists in designing systems which offer a high level of interactivity, such as multiview content navigation where the point o ...

2011

A Tectonic Approach for Integrating Kinesis with a Building in the Design Process of Interactive Skins

Jeffrey Huang

Today, interactive architecture plays an increasingly important role in urban milieus. However, in terms of design principles and guidelines in the age of digital architecture, the design and construction of interactive skins has been under-explored. A new ...

2011

Augmenting Face-to-Face Collaboration with Low-Resolution Semi-Ambient Feedback

Khaled Bachour

Conversations are a daily human activity, and a crucial part of face-to-face collaboration in virtually any context. It is also a highly engaging activity that requires the full attention of participants involved in it. This is why computers have generally ...

EPFL2010

Coûts de la regulation des industries des réseaux: Enseignements du réseau postal

Matthias Finger, Martin Maegli

La régulation joue un rôle important dans la mise en œuvre de la libéralisation des industries de réseau. Si elle vise à favoriser une certaine prospérité de l’économie et de la société, cette intervention de l’Etat présente certaines limites. Les procédur ...

2009

Full-Body Avatar Control with Environment Awareness

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Manuel Peinado, Daniel Raunhardt, Damien Maupu

Interactive control of virtual characters through full-body movement requires accurately reproducing a performer's motion while accounting for surrounding obstacles. The authors' approach, based on a prioritized inverse kinematics solver, satisfies marker ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2009

Real-time motion planning, navigation, and behavior for large crowds of virtual humans

Barbara Yersin

Simulating crowds in real time is a challenging problem that touches many different aspects of Computer Graphics: rendering, animation, path planning, behavior, etc. Our work has mainly focused on two particular aspects of real-time crowds: motion planning ...

EPFL2009

Interactive spaces

Jeffrey Huang, Muriel Waldvogel

How do conceptions of space change with the infiltration of new elements of interactivity into our surroundings? What are the effects of digitalization on typological, tectonic and ornamental changes in contemporary architecture and cities? What are the ne ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2008

Accurate On-line Avatar Control with Collision Anticipation

Daniel Thalmann, Ronan Boulic, Manuel Peinado, Daniel Raunhardt, Damien Maupu

Interactive control of a virtual character through full body movement has a wide range of applications. However, there is a need for systems that accurately reproduce the motion of a performer while accounting for surrounding obstacles. We propose an appro ...

Acm Order Department, P O Box 64145, Baltimore, Md 21264 Usa2007