It is becoming increasingly easier to set up multi-user virtual reality sessions, and these can
become viable alternatives to video conference in events such as international conferences …

It has been shown that an illusion of ownership over an artificial limb or even an entire body
can be induced in people through multisensory stimulation, providing evidence that the …

This paper describes an approach for to make available different experiences for learning
using a 3D immersive world called AVATAR. It is based on a case study aimed to create …

Participants of virtual worlds and video games are often represented by animated avatars
and telerobotics allows users to be remotely represented by physical robots. In many cases …

Modern education needs to use all resources to improve teaching-learning process. To
achieve this goal, technology can be a sharp allied. Especially to the engineering education …

[eng] It has been shown that with appropriate multisensory stimulation an illusion of owning
an artificial object as part of their own body can be induced in people. Such body ownership …

The education is going through transformations, many generated by technology. For
example, the engineering education suffers the impact from technology use in the practical …

Society today is the information society, with global connections, telepresence,
omnipresence, instantaneity, wide reach, multi formats, convergence, and more. People …

We discuss philosophical and ethical issues that arise from a dialogue system intended to
portray a real person, using recordings of the person together with a machine agent that …

The use of digital avatars to represent individuals in virtual worlds and social media has
rapidly become commonplace. Highly vivid animated avatars are no longer restricted to elite …