We present a novel mechanism that allows real and virtual humans to dynamically exchange the control of their embodiment in virtual environments. Such a mechanism raises two important issues: the possibility of dynamic embodiment exchanges between real humans and virtual humans and the continuity of actions of the team members after an exchange. To address these issues we introduce a new entity...

This paper describes a project that built a collaborative circuit board to explore various approaches to the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) notions of awareness and embodiment in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). The pedagogical aim of the collaborative circuit board was to allow open dialog amongst student peers when giving and receiving help. A brief overview of CS...

When speaking of narrativity, a widely held idea in various disciplinary fields that identity is essentially narrative often called into question. Numerous linguistic, literary, neuroscientific, and evolutionary studies corroborate this idea. In reality, narrativity these different study means objects inquiry, which have definitions describe processes and, therefore, cognitive capacities. paper...

As we move towards the close of the millennium, it is perhaps not surprising that we take the “long view” and attempt to find, in the history of HCI, clues to its future. In that vein, this article focuses on the theoretical and foundational underpinnings of interactive system design and development. Drawing upon recent trends in interactive systems research, it proposes “embodiment” as the bas...