in order to be attracted, each work of must encounter viewer in its environment. at first it is virtual and is the result of sensitive subjectivity of the artist, and then it will be changed to objectivity and forms a piece of artwork. the artist of filmmaker is changing the virtual environment of the film; the virtual situation which is made in the mind of the scriptwriter and himself; and use...

Recently, there are many virtual spaces on the Internet, which may contain avatars and objects. In general, avatars and objects which users can use in a virtual space have the restrictions in their locations because the mechanisms to control them are embedded in each virtual space system. Moreover, a user cannot move those objects and avatars to another virtual space, i.e., operating one avatar...

The development and improvement of electronic communication instruments and means in postmodern societies with fast intention has caused further multiplication in meanings and content of the communication itself. On the other hand the involvement of cyber space in our privacy has caused massive personality changes in people particularly the youth, In a way that individuals are separated from re...

− As a novel learning method, reinforced learning by which a robot acquires control rules through trial and error has gotten a lot of attention. However, it is quite difficult for robots to acquire control rules by reinforcement learning in real space because many learning trials are needed to achieve the control rules; the robot itself may lose control, or there may be safety problems with the...

The last several years have seen major enhancements to ACL2 functionality, largely driven by requests from its user community, including utilities now in common use such as make-event, mbe, and trust tags. In this paper we provide user-level summaries of some ACL2 enhancements introduced after the release of Version 3.5 (in May, 2009, at about the time of the 2009 ACL2 workshop) up through the ...

This paper reports the results of a study intended to investigate the possibility that cognitive dissonance in ‘presence’ may play a role in the widely reported phenomenon of underestimation of egocentric distances in immersive virtual environments. In this study, we compare the accuracy of egocentric distance estimates, obtained via direct blind walking, across two cognitively different immers...

This paper describes a setup using a surround screen environment (Extended Virtual Environment EVE dome) that we used to explore group interaction in real and virtual space. We have created a prototype framework to explore different modes of group interaction, the position and motion of users in real space are tracked using a vision-based interface that allows the activities of real crowds to b...

Smart homes are intelligent integrated environments, which provide residents with various and convenient automated service based on wired or wireless network using interface of home appliances, sensors and systems in living space. Context-awareness technology is essential to recognize the inhabitants’ context of in smart home research. This paper presents a simulator in a virtual space with vir...