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Title: STEREOSCOPIC BIMANUAL INTERACTION FOR 3D VISUALIZATION
Author: Cho, Isaac
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Virtual Environments (VE) are being widely used in various research fields for several decades such as 3D visualization, education, training and games. VEs have the potential to enhance the visualization and act as a general medium for human-compu...

Title: THE EFFECTS OF YOGA-BASED AND WALKING INTERVENTIONS ON HEADACHES, STRESS, AND ANXIETY
Author: David, Zhanna
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: This study examined whether interventions using yoga postures or yogic breathing (YB) can reduce headache frequency and severity, negative physiological and perceived effects of stress, depressive and anxiety symptoms relative to a physical activi...

Title: Effects of the Shared Principles of Middle School Philosophy and Culturally Responsive Education on the Academic Achievement of African American Middle School Students
Author: Ellis, Tarra
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Educational sociology
Description: This study was an investigation of the overlapping principles of relevance, rigor, and relationships inherent in both middle school philosophy and culturally responsive education to determine their effects on the academic achievement of African Am...

Title: OBJECT MANIPULATION TECHNIQUE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION IN DESKTOP VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
Author: Feng, Jinbo
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Object manipulation is one of the major operations in 3D graphical interaction. For existing high degree-of-freedom (DOF) manipulation techniques, most of them have shown to be more efficient or intuitive in their specific experiments. However, th...

Title: Dynamic behavior-based control and world-embedded knowledge for interactive artificial intelligence
Author: Heckel, Frederick
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: Video game designers depend on artificial intelligence to drive player experience in modern games. Therefore it is critical that AI not only be fast and computationally inexpensive, but also easy to incorporate with the design process. We address ...

Title: Effects of Control-Display Mapping on 3D Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environments
Author: Li, Jialei
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: There is a significant amount of research on the mapping of the interactive control space to the display space in 3D user interfaces. While most work has focused on control-display gain (or ratio), one factor that has received relatively less atte...

Title: PARTICIPATORY SENSING: DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF INCENTIVE EFFECTIVENESS AND A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTABLISHING INCENTIVE DESIGN GUIDELINES
Author: Omokaro, Osarieme
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Participatory sensing, in which volunteers use the sensors on their smartphones to capture and transmit digital samples of the surrounding environment, shows promise for large-scale data collection. Recently, researchers have begun to explore the ...

Title: A Framework for the Design and Analysis of Socially Pervasive Games
Author: Powell, Eve
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Philosophy
Description: Pervasive games have the potential to create large social impacts on players and non-players alike. However, this can only happen when the game becomes integrated and accepted within a social community - or in other words, is socially adopted in i...

Title: Experimental Evaluation of the Cognitive Effects of Travel Technique in Immersive Virtual Environments
Author: Suma, Evan
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Navigation is one of the most common and universal interaction tasks performed with 3D user interfaces, and different travel techniques can have a strong influence on a user's exploration and overall experience of a virtual environment. Real walki...

Title: USING THE MULTIMEDIA STRATEGIES OF LEARNER-GENERATED DRAWING AND PEER DISCUSSION TO RETAIN TERMINOLOGY IN SECONDARY EDUCATION SCIENCE CLASSROOMS
Author: Thomas, Drusilla
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: School management and organization
Description: DRUSILLA BREWINGTON THOMAS. Using the multimedia strategies of learner-generated drawing and peer discussion to retain terminology in secondary education science classrooms. (Under the direction of DR. REBECCA SHORE) Student mastery of the academi...

Title: The Effects of Brief Mindfulness Meditation Training on Mood, Cognitive, and Cardiovascular Variables
Author: Zeidan, Fadel
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Experimental
Description: This study examined whether a brief mindfulness meditation intervention, a style of meditative practice marked by focusing on the sensations of the breath without judgment, would affect mood, cognition, and cardiovascular measures. Participants wi...

Title: Understanding the Structure of Information Visualization Through Visual Metaphors
Author: Ziemkiewicz, Caroline
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Cognitive psychology
Description: Information visualization is an increasingly widespread way to present and analyze complex data, but there is much we still do not know about how people understand visually presented information. Every visualization contains certain assumptions ab...