Publications related to Interactive spaces

Datafication of audiovisual archives: from practice mapping to a thinking model

Purpose Recent archiving and curatorial practices took advantage of the advancement in digital technologies, creating immersive and interactive experiences to emphasize the plurality of memory materials, encourage personalized sense-making and extract, man ...

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2024

Interactive Digital Engagement With Visual Artworks and Cultural Artefacts Enhances User Aesthetic Experiences in the Laboratory and Museum

Martin Vetterli, Loïc Arnaud Baboulaz, Christine Mohr, Pierre Gabioud

Digital technologies reshape the way we interact with our environment, including with artworks. Advanced computational imaging solutions allow having extremely high-resolution digital reproductions of artworks outside museums, presumably increasing artwork ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2022

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

MoleculARweb: A Web Site for Chemistry and Structural Biology Education through Interactive Augmented Reality out of the Box in Commodity Devices

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

Augmented/virtual realities (ARs/VRs) promise to revolutionize STEM education. However, most easy-to-use tools are limited to static visualizations, which limits the approachable content, whereas more interactive and dynamic alternatives require costly har ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Radical Intangibles: Materializing the Ephemeral

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Lillian Hibberd, Jeffrey Shaw

New materialism considers that the world and its histories are produced by a range of material forces that extend from the physical and the biological to the psychological, social and cultural. In recognizing that heritage is not held in objects alone, new ...

2021

Exploiting user interactivity in quality assessment of point cloud imaging

Touradj Ebrahimi, Evangelos Alexiou

Point clouds are a new modality for representation of plenoptic content and a popular alternative to create immersive media. Despite recent progress in capture, display, storage, delivery and processing, the problem of a reliable approach to subjectively a ...

2019

Experience Catalysts And Architecture Towards a New Tradition

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

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

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

Full-Body Avatar Control with Environment Awareness

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

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

Simulating interactions with virtual characters for the treatment of social phobia

Helena Stephanie Grillon Le Gallennec

Virtual Reality (VR) has nowadays become a very useful tool for therapists in the treatment of phobias. Indeed, it allows the simulation of scenarios which are difficult to reproduce in real life. It also allows for a situation to be repeated as much as on ...

EPFL2009

Accurate On-line Avatar Control with Collision Anticipation

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

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

Semantics-based representation of virtual environments

Daniel Thalmann, Frédéric Vexo

In this paper we present an object representation based on the semantics and functionality of interactive digital items - virtual objects - within a virtual environment (VE). We consider every object participating in a VE application not only as a 3D shape ...

2005