HCI Links - Virtual Reality and Simulation

Version of 8/24/04 - by RPF -

Many of the links here are gathered from a variety of sources and need to be updated or simply deleted. That is a work in progress, starting in the Fall of 2004. The links below do not open new windows, so a tabbed browser such as Firefox can be useful in exploring the collection. The titles alone give little indication of "what lies beyond", so annotating the titles is also useful project (or collection of projects).

General

• The National Center for Simulation
• Programming by Example
• Demonstrational Programming
• NCSA Virtual Reality Lab and CAVE
• Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
• Alice: 3D Interactive Graphics Programming Environment
• Wayfinding Strategies and Behaviors in Large Virtual Worlds
• "In a Strange Land modeling and understanding cyberspace" paper by Alan Dix.
• What is Virtual Reality?
• Virtual Reality Systems
• Virtual Reality Monitoring: How Real is Virtual Reality?
• Human Interfacing Issues of Virtual Reality
• X11 in Virtual Environments: Combining Computer Interaction Methodologies
• User-Friendly Software Makes Molecular Modeling A Virtual Reality
• Virtual Reality at EVL
• Virtual World Factory
• Virtual Reality Online
• A Conceptual Method for Interacting with Information in a Three-Dimensional Virtual Environment
• Virtual Retinal Display
• The Virtual Whale: Immersive VR
• NCSA Virtual Reality Facilities
• Clemson University VR Projects
• Virtual Reality: A Short Introduction
• Ship Motion Simulation
• Virtual Prototyping of Automotive Interiors
• Virtual Simulation of Ship Production Processes
• The Virtual Study Tour
• Accident Simulation
• Image Based Virtual Reality
• The Effects of Immersion
• Navigating Through Information via Virtual Reality
• What's the Future of Virtual Reality?
• Alice: Easy to Learn 3D Graphics
• Pablo and Virtual Reality
• Virtual Reality in Education
• Virtual Reality Entertainment
• Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures
• Virtual Reality Weather Movie
• Virtual EMS software demo videos

Virtual Reality Controls

• The Google list of annotated links for Virtual Reality Hardware

Semiotics

• What semiotics can and cannot do for HCI paper
• HCI, the Arts and the Humanities position papers (including HCI and semiotics)
• The New HCI? Navigation of Information Space paper

Gestures

• Hand Gestures for HCI technical reports from Simon Fraser University
• Understanding Gestures in Multimodal Human Computer Interaction paper
• The impact of communications mode on asynchronous collaboration in the NAS paper
• Toward the design of usable multimodal command languages presentation

Remote Direct Manipulation

• The Ergonomics in Teleoperation and Control Laboratory at the University of Toronto
• Vehicle teleoperation interfaces workshop at the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
• Advanced Interfaces for Vehicle Teleoperation: Collaboration Control, Sensor Fusion Displays, and Remote Driving Tools paper

Simulation Creation Tools

• Active Worlds Development Kit
• Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) Repository
• VRML tutorial
• X3D Tutorial from SIGGRAPH 2002
• Color coded stereo vision in VRML

CAD and CAM

• Virtual Reality for Manufacturing - Case Studies
• CADwire.net

Home Automation

• An Intelligent Home Automation System
• The Electronic House
• The Home Automation Show and Conference
• Home Systems
• HomeTech Solutions

Telemedicine

• The American Telemedicine Association
• Telemedicine Resources Links
• Surgical Enhancement and Telemedicine
• Benefits of Telemedicine
• Telemedicine Increases
• First Province wide Telemedicine Network
• The Medical College of Georgia Telemedicine System
• The First International Telemedicine Trial to China
• Psychiatric Services Offered Through Telemedicine
• Virtual Environments for Health Care

Military Applications

• Teleoperators at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego
• "Military applications of virtual reality" by Jim Baumann
• America's Army - The Official US Army Game
• The United States Department of Defense's Defense Modeling and Simulation Office
• The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC)