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Avatar (computing)

Known as: Avatar machine, Buddy icons, Picon (Apple) 
In computing, an avatar is the graphical representation of the user or the user's alter ego or character. It may take either a three-dimensional form… 
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Identity management

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2014
2014
Context-aware networking and communications: part 2 [Guest Editorial]
Context refers to information characterizing the situation of an entity or a group of entities, and it provides information about… 
2012
2012
Building an On-Demand Avatar-Based Health Intervention for Behavior Change
We discuss the design and implementation of the pro- totype of an avatar-based health system aimed at pro- viding people access… 
2011
2011
Egocentric distance perception in real and HMD-based virtual environments: the effect of limited scanning method
We conducted four experiments on egocentric depth perception using blind walking with a restricted scanning method in both the… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends
The rapid increase of Internet-based social networking sites has brought attention to the social software phenomenon and… 
2006
2006
Play and Sociability in There: Some Lessons from Online Games for Collaborative Virtual Environments
While online games have become increasingly popular in recent years, there has been very little overlap between games research… 
2006
2006
Providing Full Awareness to Distributed Virtual Environments Based on Peer-to-Peer Architectures
In recent years, large scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs) have become a major trend in distributed applications… 
2001
2001
Video-mediated communication in the classroom to support sick children: a case study
2001
2001
Coordination components for collaborative virtual environments
Review
1998
Review
1998
Face to virtual face
The first virtual humans appeared in the early 1980s in such films as Dreamflight (1982) and The Juggler (1982). Pioneering work… 
1996
1996
Closed form and geometric algorithms for real-time control of an avatar
In a virtual environment with multiple participants, it is necessary that the user's actions be replicated by synthetic human… 
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