Enhancing Innovation through Virtual Proximity

Enhancing Engineering Education through Distributed Virtual Reality

1 School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0355 Abstract – Visual interaction can greatly change the way engineering is performed, both in learning new materials and in terms of explaining activities between practicing professionals. This paper presents a study to develop and assess Distributed Virtual Reality (DVR) for Engineering Educa...

Enhancing Innovation Potential through Local Capacity Building in Education

Global technology education is largely dominated by Western universities. Students from developing countries face an enormous challenge when moving from their local education system into the competitive international education market. Their local knowledge gets lost in a foreign education system where the students are required to acquire a new set of skills. This paper presents a survey among i...

Geographies of Open Source Biotechnology Innovation: Buzz, Pipelines, and Proximity in a Virtual Cluster

Enhancing Tourism Destination Accessibility in Developing Countries through Virtual Worlds

The problem of destination accessibility is a vital concern in the sustainable tourism development in the emerging regions due to the increasing numbers of tourism business growth in the recent times. Tourism is one of the potential foreign exchange earning sectors, which place sustainability as one of the main success metrics for benchmarking the industry’s overall development. On the other ha...

Enhancing Indoor Localization with Proximity Information

Several studies have pointed out that RSS-based localization methods for indoor environments are inaccurate and faulty. In our work, we hypothesize that RSS-based localization can be enhanced by utilizing proximity information. Instead of considering solely the radio-signals of the item of interest, we also consider the signals of nearby items to enhance localization. In order to test our hypot...