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The virtual raft project: a mobile interface for interacting with communities of autonomous characters

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CHI EA '05: CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1150 - 1151

https://doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1056857

Published: 02 April 2005 Publication History

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This paper presents a novel and intuitive paradigm for interacting with autonomous animated characters. This paradigm utilizes a mobile device to allow people to transport characters among different virtual environments. The central metaphor in this paradigm is that virtual space is like land and real space is like water for virtual characters. The tangible interface described here serves as a virtual raft with which people may carry characters across a sea of real space from one virtual island to another. By increasing participants' physical engagement with the autonomous characters, this interaction paradigm contributes to the believability of those characters.

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The virtual raft project: a mobile interface for interacting with communities of autonomous characters
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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CHI EA '05: CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2005

1358 pages

ISBN:1595930027

DOI:10.1145/1056808

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Gerrit van der Veer
Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
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Stanford University, Stanford, CA

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