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Avatar (hindouisme)

Publications associées (12)

From finger animation to full-body embodiment of avatars with different morphologies and proportions

VR (Virtual Reality) is a real-time simulation that creates the subjective illusion of being in a virtual world.This thesis explores how integrating the user's body and fingers can be achieved and beneficial for the user to experience VR.At the advent of V ...

EPFL2023

Does scaling player size skew one’s ability to correctly evaluate object sizes in a virtual environment?

Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Mathias Guy Delahaye

This paper presents the results of a study performed in order to evaluate whether a navigation technique, based on scaling the user’s avatar, impacts the user’s ability to correctly assess the size of virtual objects in a virtual environment. This study wa ...

Association for Computing Machinery2020

Self-attribution of distorted reaching movements in immersive virtual reality

Olaf Blanke, Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Roy Salomon, Henrique Galvan Debarba

This study explores the extent to which individuals embodied in Virtual Reality tend to self-attribute the movements of their avatar. More specifically, we tested subjects performing goal-directed movements and distorted the mapping between user and avatar ...

2018

Conjugates containing sequences from placenta growth factor and their use as components of biomaterials and in medicine

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Mikaël Martino, Priscilla Suhasna Maithili Briquez

Embodiments of the invention are described, including materials and methods for making molecules and materials that have a specific binding domain of a P1GF2. Embodiments include, for instance, medicaments, biomaterials, biomolecules, molecular fusions, an ...

2015

I Feel What You Feel if I Like You: The Effect of Attractiveness on Visual Remapping of Touch

Andrea Serino, Jean-Paul Noel

Observing touch being applied to another human's face enhances tactile perception for touch being applied to one's own face. This effect, termed the Visual Remapping of Touch (VRT), is maximal the greater the physical or conceptual similarity between obser ...

Brill Academic Publishers2014

How to explore the "spatialities" of avatars in a virtual world? Example of the project Magic Ring in Second Life

Jean-François Lucas

This chapter presents a project developed in a study about the narrative dimension of the immersion process in the virtual world of Second Life. This digital universe is not usual because users can build the digital environment themselves, that means that ...

Inter-Disciplinary Press2014

Mondes, points de vue, personnages : l’avatar comme enveloppe pilotable

Jean-François Lucas

Résumé de l'ouvrage : Ces créatures d’images polymorphes que sont les avatars jouables nous font exister dans les mondes numériques des jeux vidéo, et même dans certains sites Web communautaires ou ludiques. Parce qu’elles nous y métamorphosent, elles appa ...

Hermès science : Lavoisier2013

Social interaction probed by reaching to face images: Rhesus monkeys consider a textured monkey avatar as a conspecific.

Hannes Bleuler, Solaiman Shokur, Miguel Nicolelis

Realistic body images (avatars) have been long utilized in virtual reality applications, and they are becoming increasingly used in Neuroscience and Neuroprosthetics fields. To elucidate monkeys' perception of avatars, we have measured reaction of two naiv ...

2011

No peanut! Affective Cues for the Virtual Bartender

Stéphane Gobron, Junghyun Ahn

The aim of this paper are threefold: it explores methods for the detection of affective states in text, it presents the usage of such affective cues in a conversational system and it evaluates its effectiveness in a virtual reality setting. Valence and aro ...

2011

Sentiment analysis of informal textual communication in cyberspace

Daniel Thalmann, Stéphane Gobron

The ability to correctly identify the existence and polarity of emotion in informal, textual communication is a very important part of a realistic and immersive 3D environment where people communicate with one another through avatars or with an automated s ...

2010

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