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Full-Body Avatar Control with Environment Awareness

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

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

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

Jacket for embodied interaction with virtual or distal robotic device

Dario Floreano, David Atienza Alonso, Carine Rognon, Alice Ghislaine Concordel, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola, Stefano Mintchev

A system for interacting with a remote object comprising a wearable jacket for a user, two actuators for supporting arms of the user, motors for causing movements to at least one of a torso and the arms of the user, and sensors for measuring at least one o ...

2018

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

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

Modélisation mécanique de fils pour la simulation chirurgicale

Lindo Robert Duratti

Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) represents one of the major progresses in surgery in the last decade. In general, it is based on the application of small body-cuts through which instruments are inserted into the patient's body allowing the surgeon to carr ...

EPFL2008

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