1 Introduction In this paper we take a multi-party interaction point of view on our research on multimodal interaction between agents in various virtual environments: an educational environment, a meeting environment, and a storytelling environment. These environments are quite different. All these environments require the modeling of multimodal interaction: interactions between human users, th...

To demonstrate some of our research topics in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), we employ two modes of natural human-computer interaction to control a virtual environment. By using speech and gesture recognition, we outline the control of a virtual environment research testbed (BattleView) without the need for traditional virtual reality interfaces such a wand, mouse, or keyboard. The use of fe...

genotype×environment interactions (geis) can affect breeding programs because they often complicate the evaluation and selection of superior genotypes. this drawback can be reduced by gaining insights into gei processes and genotype adaptation. the objectives of this research were to evaluate: (1) the yield stability of promising wheat lines across locations and (2) the relationship among the t...

Focus for this report is the Collaborative Virtual Environments potential to support work meetings for geographically distributed experts. Research question concerns the difference in face-to-face-, chat-, and CVE-meetings on efficiency, communication, technology, enjoyment and, competence development. A small group of experts were observed during their natural work meetings. Six of the groups ...

The Intelligent Room (IRoom), an Intelligent Environment (IE) at the MIT Aritificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratory (Coen, 1998), is an experiment in human-computer interaction (HCI). Most of our research centers on a particular implementation of the IRoom, a conference room enhanced with cameras, microphones, and other sensors. Part of our HCI research is in enabling the Intelligent Room to “int...

The paper addresses the problem of how to make a human-machine interaction user-friendlier within a problem-solving environment. Two different projection modalities – virtual reality and desktop solution are compared in respect to interaction capabilities provided by the Virtual Radiology Explorer (VRE) – case study of this research. The VRE is a problem-solving environment for vascular reconst...