In recent years, thanks to the development of information and communication technologies, the computer and internet have been used widely in higher education. Internet-based education is impacting traditional higher education as online components increasingly become integrated into facetoface (FTF) courses. The goal of combined internet-based and traditional education is to take full advantage ...

A geometric framework for finding intrinsic correspondence between animated 3D faces is presented. We model facial expressions as isometries of the facial surface and find the correspondence between two faces as the minimum-distortion mapping. Generalized multidimensional scaling is used for this goal. We apply our approach to texture mapping onto 3D video, expression exaggeration and morphing ...

This research examines the deployment of online and offline channels as means of interacting with customers to improve corporate customer retention in terms of contract renewal. Our study was held in collaboration with a leading business-to-business (B2B) corporation in Mainland China, which acts as an intermediary to connect local manufacturers to overseas corporate buyers. Three years of empi...

Pictures are patterned, 2D surfaces designed to elicit 3Dscenerepresenting experiences from their viewers. In this essay, I argue that philosophers have tended to underestimate the relevance of research in vision science to understanding the nature of pictorial experience. Both the deeply entrenched methodology of virtual psychophysics as well as empirical studies of pictorial space perception ...

A variety of Web-based low cost com puter-m ediated com m unicat ion (CMC) tools are now available for use by sm all and m edium -sized enterprises (SME) . These tools invariably incorporate chat system s that facilitate sim ultaneous input in synchronous elect ronic m eet ing environm ents, allowing what is referred to as “elect ronic brainstorm ing.” Although prior research in inform at ion s...