EGVE: Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments: Recent submissions

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    • FaceDrive: Facial Expression Driven Operation to Control Virtual Supernumerary Robotic Arms 

      Fukuoka, Masaaki; verhulst, adrien; Nakamura, Fumihiko; Takizawa, Ryo; Masai, Katsutoshi; Sugimoto, Maki (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Supernumerary Robotic Limbs (SRLs) can make physical activities easier, but require cooperation with the operator. To improve cooperation between the SRLs and the operator, the SRLs can try to predict the operator's ...

    • Evaluation of Embodied Agent Positioning and Moving Interfaces for an AR Virtual Guide 

      Techasarntikul, Nattaon; Ratsamee, Photchara; Orlosky, Jason; Mashita, Tomohiro; Uranishi, Yuki; Kiyokawa, Kiyoshi; Takemura, Haruo (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Augmented Reality (AR) has become a popular technology in museums, and many venues now provide AR applications inside gallery spaces. To improve museum tour experiences, we have developed an embodied agent AR guide system ...

    • Evaluation of Virtual Reality Tracking Systems Underwater 

      Costa, Raphael; Guo, Rongkai; Quarles, John (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      The objective of this research is to compare the effectiveness of various virtual reality tracking systems underwater. There have been few works in aquatic virtual reality (VR) - i.e., VR systems that can be used in a real ...

    • Random-Forest-Based Initializer for Real-time Optimization-based 3D Motion Tracking Problems 

      Huang, Jiawei; Sugawara, Ryo; Komura, Taku; Kitamura, Yoshifumi (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Many motion tracking systems require solving inverse problem to compute the tracking result from original sensor measurements, such as images from cameras and signals from receivers. For real-time motion tracking, such ...

    • Automatic Labeling of Training Data by Vowel Recognition for Mouth Shape Recognition with Optical Sensors Embedded in Head-Mounted Display 

      Nakamura, Fumihiko; Suzuki, Katsuhiro; Masai, Katsutoshi; Itoh, Yuta; Sugiura, Yuta; Sugimoto, Maki (The Eurographics Association, 2019)
      Facial expressions enrich communication via avatars. However, in common immersive virtual reality (VR) systems, facial occlusions by head-mounted displays (HMD) lead to difficulties in capturing users' faces. In particular, ...

    • ICAT-EGVE 2019: Frontmatter 

      Kakehi, Yasuaki; Hiyama, Atsushi (Eurographics Association, 2019)

    • Virtual Fixtures in VR - Perceptual Overlays for Assisted Teleoperation, Teleprogramming and Learning 

      Krupke, Dennis; Zhang, Jianwei; Steinicke, Frank (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Current advances in mixed reality (MR) technology achieves both, making the sensations more immersive and plausible, but also increase the utilization of these technologies in robotics. Their low-cost and the low effort ...

    • Blowing in the Wind: Increasing Copresence with a Virtual Human via Airflow Influence in Augmented Reality 

      Kim, Kangsoo; Bruder, Gerd; Welch, Gregory (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      In a social context where two or more interlocutors interact with each other in the same space, one's sense of copresence with the others is an important factor for the quality of communication and engagement in the ...

    • Usability of Augmented Reality in Aeronautic Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul 

      Fischini, Antoine; Ababsa, Fakhreddine; Grasser, Mickaël (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Augmented Reality (AR) is a strong growing research topic in several areas including industry, training, art and entertainment. AR can help users to achieve very complex tasks by enhancing their vision with useful and ...

    • A Study on AR Authoring using Mobile Devices for Educators 

      Chu, Kinfung; Lu, Weiquan; Oka, Kiyoshi; Takashima, Kazuki; Kitamura, Yoshifumi (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Augmented Reality (AR) on consumer devices is now commonplace and it finds application in areas like online retail and gaming. Among which, school education can especially benefit from the interactivity and expressiveness ...

    • AR based Self-sports Learning System using Decayed Dynamic TimeWarping Algorithm 

      Ikeda, Atsuki; Hwang, Dong Hyun; Koike, Hideki (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      A self-sports learning system that provides users with real-time multimodal feedback about differences between a user's motion and an expert's motion is proposed. We also propose the Decayed Dynamic Time Warping algorithm, ...

    • Studying Levels of Presence in a Virtual Environment Simulating Drug Use in Schools: Effect on Different Character Perspectives 

      Christofi, Maria; Baka, Evangelia; Stavroulia, Kalliopi Evangelia; Michael-Grigoriou, Despina; Lanitis, Andreas; Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      This paper studies the aspect of presence in a Virtual Reality (VR) environment that can be used for training purposes in the education sector and more specifically for teacher training and professional development. During ...

    • BuzzwireVR: An Immersive Game to Supplement Fine-Motor Movement Therapy 

      Christou, Chris G.; Michael-Grigoriou, Despina; Sokratous, D.; Tsiakoulia, M. (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Recovery of upper-body fine-motor skills after brain trauma, e.g. after a stroke, involves a long process of movement rehabilitation. When the arms and hands are affected patients often spend many hours exercising in order ...

    • Virtual Reality Application for Blind People in Unknown Interior Spaces 

      Guerrón, Nancy E.; Cobo, Antonio; Olmedo, José J. Serrano (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Virtual reality applications (VRA) with 3D sounds on smartphones were used by six blind adults for indoor navigation. Each application provided users with three audio outputs with linear, logarithmic and customized response ...

    • Feasibility Study of an Augmented Reality System for People with Dementia 

      Andrade Ferreira, Luis Duarte; Cavaco, Sofia; Bermúdez i Badia, Sergi (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      While augmented reality (AR) can be valuable in therapy with people with dementia (PwD), when designing an AR system for PwD, it is important to understand how PwD interact with to such systems. Here we discuss an experiment ...

    • A Scoping Review Exploring the Feasibility of Virtual Reality Technology Use with Individuals Living with Dementia 

      Rose, Vienna; Stewart, Inga; Jenkins, Keith G.; Ang, Chee Siang; Matsangidou, Maria (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      The existing evidence base in relation to the feasibility of using Virtual Reality technology systems with individuals living with a dementia appeared limited and was therefore explored. The research was collected and ...

    • A Touch Panel for Presenting Softness with Visuo-Haptic Interaction 

      Murata, Karen A.; Oishi, Erika; Nakamura, Takuto; Kajimoto, Hiroyuki; Tanaka, Nobuya; Sano, Takahiro; Naya, Masayuki (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      This paper proposes a system capable of presenting softness using a touch panel. Many studies of touch panel-based haptic displays have developed methods for manipulating macro-roughness (shape), fine-roughness (texture), ...

    • Scalable Autostereoscopic Display with Temporal Division Method 

      Kurogi, Tadatoshi; Nii, Hideaki; Peiris, Roshan Lalintha; Minamizawa, Kouta (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      Science-fiction has frequently depicted people directly interacting with life-size autostereoscopic images projected from the walls of buildings in public places. In this paper, we present a large modularized autostereoscopic ...

    • Soft Finger-tip Sensing Probe Based on Haptic Primary Colors 

      Kato, Fumihiro; Inoue, Yasuyuki; Tachi, Susumu (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      This paper describes a novel tactile sensing probe based on haptic primary colors (HPCs) and a tactile classifying system. We developed a finger-type soft tactile probe incorporating a sensor to measure three physical ...

    • Materiality Manipulation by Light-Field Projection from Reflectance Analysis 

      Murakami, Kouki; Amano, Toshiyuki (The Eurographics Association, 2018)
      In this paper, we report a method for changing the appearance of an object to different colors as a function of viewing perspective with multiple projectors and cameras. If such appearance manipulation becomes possible, ...