Artificial reality and telexistence; proceedings.9780769527543 Artificial reality and telexistence; proceedings. International conference on Artifical Reality and Telexistence workshops (16th: Zhejiang, China) Ed. by Qingzhang Chen et al. Computer Society Press 2006 707 pages $247.00 Hardcover QA76 Proceedings of a November 29 - December 1, 2006 conference held in Hangzhou, China. The 142 contributions are organized into sections on artificial reality, anthropomorphic Having the characteristics of a human being. For example, an anthropomorphic robot has a head, arms and legs. intelligent robotics, augmented reality/mixed reality, distributed and collaborative VR systems, haptic interface Communicating with the computer via some tactile method. Haptic devices sense some form of finger, hand, head or body movement. (interface, hardware) haptic interface - A touch interface to a computer that provides feedback, such as a data glove. , innovative applications of VR, interactive art and entertainment, motion tracking, real time computer simulation, teleconference/telexistence/telepresences, tools and techniques for modeling VR systems, ubiquitous computing ubiquitous computing - Computers everywhere. Making many computers available throughout the physical environment, while making them effectively invisible to the user. Ubiquitous computing is held by some to be the Third Wave of computing. , virtual medicine and health science, virtual reality, VR interaction and navigation techniques. A sampling of topics: a point-based rendering approach for mobile devices, rule-based control of collaborative robots, cellular automata cellular automata (CA) Simplest model of a spatially distributed process that can be used to simulate various real-world processes. Cellular automata were invented in the 1940s by John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam at Los Alamos National Laboratory. to simulate rock failure, a multi-projector seamless display system based on PC-cluster, tangible cubes as programming objects, an improved algorithm based on substructures for creating a virtual plant, efficient metamorphosis metamorphosis (mĕt'əmôr`fəsĭs) [Gr.,=transformation], in zoology, term used to describe a form of development from egg to adult in which there is a series of distinct stages. of point-sampled geometry, and hybrid realtime simulation of the space docking A space dock is a (so far fictional only) type of 'dry dock' for spaceships or starships. However, concept work has been undertaken on real space dock facilities that could be built with current technology. process. No subject index. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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