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Title Frontiers of human-centered computing, online communities and virtual environments / Rae Earnshaw ... [and others] (eds.)
Published London ; New York : Springer, [2001]
©2001

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Description xv, 482 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents Introduction / Rae Earnshaw and John A. Vince -- 1. Virtual Environments. 1. Virtual Environments: A Review / John A. Vince. 2. The Role of Virtual Humans in Virtual Environment Technology and Interfaces / Daniel Thalmann. 3. Perceptual User Interfaces / Matthew Turk. 4. Guidelines for Telepresence and Shared Virtual Environments / Rae Earnshaw -- 2. Augmented Reality and Mobile Computing. 5. Mobile Augmented Reality: a Complex Human-Centered System / Simon Julier, Steven Feiner and Lawrence Rosenblum. 6. Toward Tightly Coupled Human Interfaces / Thomas A. Furness III. 7. Situation-Aware Mobile Assistance / Thomas Kirste -- 3. Devices for Display and Interaction. 8. Devices for Display and Interaction / Turner Whitted. 9. Technologies for Virtual Reality/Tele-Immersion Applications: Issues of Research in Image Display and Global Networking / Tom DeFanti, Dan Sandin and Maxine Brown / [et al.] -- 4. Future Interfaces. 10. Post-Wimp User Interfaces: the Human Connection / Andries van Dam. 11. Universal Usability: A Research Agenda for Human-Computer Interaction to Empower Every Citizen / Ben Shneiderman. 12. Virtual Spaces Revive Real World Interaction / Luc Julia, Jehan Bing and Adam Cheyer. 13. An HCI Agenda for the Next Millennium: Emergent Global Intelligence / John C. Thomas -- 5. Applications and Tools. 14. Application Drivers for Virtual Environment Technology Development / David Arnold. 15. 3D Data Visualization Components on the Web - Results from AVS's Involvement in Several EC Esprit Research Projects / Mikael Jern. 16. Creating a Shared Reality for Research and Education Through Networked Virtual Reality / Judith R. Brown -- 6. Online Communities. 17. Online Communities: Usability, Sociability, Theory and Methods / Jenny Preece. 18. Collaboration and Shared Virtual Environments - from Metaphor to Reality / David Leevers. 19. On the Need for Cultural Representation in Interactive Systems / Sudhir P. Mudur. 20. Internet Security from Diverse Viewpoints / Christoph Busch -- 7. Foundations for Interaction. 21. Why Performance Always Comes Last in Interactive System Design, and What To Do About It / William Newman. 22. Virtual Environments for Human-Centered Computing / Tosiyasu L. Kunii. 23. Some Aspects of the Human Communication Process: Preliminary Steps Towards a Conceptual Framework / Richard A. Guedj. 24. Natural Human-Human-System Interaction / Niels Ole Bernsen -- 8. The Business/Academia/Research/Government Axis. 25. Challenges and Frontiers of Computer Graphics: a Vision for an Applied Research Agenda / Jose L. Encarnacao. 26. Society and Human Action: Technology Revisited / Veronique Havelange. 27. Business, Academia, Government: Toward Symbiotic Collaboration in a Networked Society / Kozo Akiyoshi, Nobuo Akiyoshi and Tosiyasu L. Kunii / [et al.]. 28. A Research Agenda for Visualization and Human Interfaces: a Position Paper / Charles Koelbel. 29. Publishing Technologies: Towards a Wider Concept of Documents and Related Issues / Jurgen Schonhut. 30. The Future and Its Enemies / Bertram Herzog -- 9. Invited Authors. 31. New Industrial Temporal Objects / Bernard Stiegler. 32. Cognition and Computers: The Context of the Matter, the Matter of Context / Daniel Andler. 33. Supporting Creativity With Advanced Information-Abundant User Interfaces / Ben Shneiderman
Summary "This volume presents the results of a joint National Science Foundation and European Commission Workshop which was set up to identify the future key strategic research directions in the areas of human-centred interaction, online communities and virtual environments."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Human-computer interaction.
Computer networks.
Virtual reality.
Author Earnshaw, Rae A., 1944-
LC no. 00067967
ISBN 1852332387