Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Virtual Media /

As the Internet and the WWW impact on corporate and private activities, the human-computer interface is becoming a central issue for the designers of these systems. Such interfaces will decide the success or failure of future technologies, which will have to provide users with easy-to-use 'inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Earnshaw, Rae
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Vince, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London, 2002.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Convergence, software agents and information ecosystems
  • Interface issues for wearable and mobile computer users
  • Visual data navigators 'Collaboratories' true interactive visualisation for the web
  • The future of convergent computer and telecommunications technology
  • Towards autonomous characters for interactive media
  • Towards an XML and agent-based framework for the distributed management and analysis of multi-spectral data
  • Learning by experience
  • The development of an intelligent virtual environment for training
  • An experimental study of the effect of presence in collaborative virtual environments
  • Formative research on the refinement of web-based instructional design and development guidance systems for teaching music fundamentals at the pre-college level
  • Unnatural history?- Deconstructing the Walking with Dinosaurs phenomena
  • Trashing the net: subculture practice online
  • Another time, another place: the use of technology to make the cultural heritage of the organ accessible
  • Synthetic vision for road traffic simulation in virtual environments
  • Eternity.