Being There Together and the Future of Connected Presence

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 438-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Mutual Awareness ◽  
The Future ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Being There ◽  
Shared Virtual Environments ◽  
The Way

Research on virtual environments has provided insights into the experience of presence (or being there) and copresence (being there together). Several dimensions of this experience, including the realism of the environment and of the avatar embodiment, have been investigated. At the same time, research on a number of new media has begun to use concepts that are similar to copresence—such as mutual awareness, connected presence, and engagement. Since digital environments can be reconfigured and combined easily, and since an increasing number of such environments are used to connect people in their everyday lives, it is useful to think about the various modalities of connected presence as a continuum—with shared virtual environments in which people are fully immersed as an end-state. This paper proposes a model for the different modalities of connected presence whereby research on shared virtual environments can be modeled as approaching this end-state. It is argued that this model can improve our understanding both of the uses of shared virtual environments and of their future development among a variety of media for “being there together.” This paves the way for integrating research on shared virtual environments with research on other new media.

Digital and Technical Developments in the Amblyopia Therapy

2020 ◽  
Vol 237 (10) ◽  
pp. 1172-1176
Author(s):  
Charlotte Schramm ◽  
Yaroslava Wenner
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Therapy Monitoring ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
The Future

AbstractThe digital media becomes more and more common in our everyday lives. So it is not surprising that technical progress is also leaving its mark on amblyopia therapy. New media and technologies can be used both in the actual amblyopia therapy or therapy monitoring. In particular in this review shutter glasses, therapy monitoring and analysis using microsensors and newer video programs for amblyopia therapy are presented and critically discussed. Currently, these cannot yet replace classic amblyopia therapy. They represent interesting options that will occupy us even more in the future.

The Process of Building the Repertory and a Glance to the Roads Ahead: Discussion with Roger Van Zandvoort

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (02) ◽  
pp. 133-137
Author(s):  
Yossi Tagori
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

SummaryThis article concerns an interview with Roger van Zandvoort, author of ‘Complete Repertory and Dynamic Repertory’. In some parts, it is referring to an article I published in Vol. 2, 2017, of Homeopathic Link ‘Call for a New Concept of Homeopathic Software’. The parts concerned are those dealing with the future development of the homeopathic software, and especially the possibility to have in future software that will enable colleagues worldwide to share their data and the way these data can contribute to future repertories.

Potenziale und Risiken im Dienstleistungseinkauf

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Sorge
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Core Business ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Angesichts der zunehmenden Bedeutung von Dienstleistungen als Wirtschaftsfaktor – bei wachsender Industrialisierung und Globalisierung – steigt auch die Bedeutung des Einkaufs von Dienstleistungen. Das vorliegende Werk schlägt dabei einen Bogen von der Entstehung der Dienstleistungen bis hin zur zukünftigen Entwicklung der Dienstleistungsbranche. Worin insbesondere die Potenziale und Risiken im Dienstleistungseinkauf liegen, wird an Beispielen wie der Implementierung eines Risikomanagements, der Bündelung von Gütern und Dienstleistungen sowie der Bildung von Kooperationen und Netzwerken dargestellt. Die Facetten der Dienstleistungen reichen dabei von der Ergänzung zum Kerngeschäft (Services) über das Angebot reiner Dienstleistungen bis hin zum Dienstleistungsmarketing. In view of the increasing significance of services as an economic factor – along with increasing industrialisation and globalisation – the purchasing of services is also increasing in importance. This work starts with the origins of services and goes all the way to the future development of the services sector. The particular potentials and risks involved in purchasing services are shown by examples such as the implementation of risk management, the bundling of products and services, and building co-operation and networks. The different aspects of services range from those which complement the core business, to those where only services are provided, to the marketing of services. Keywords: risikomanagement, netzwerke, maverick buying, marktrecherchen, kostenrecherchen, after sales gewinn

scholarly journals Content Level Gateway for Virtual Worlds

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Van den Broeck ◽  
Sigurd Van Broeck ◽  
David Zhe Lou
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Parental Control ◽  
Future Internet ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Target Group ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

One of the technologies from which we can say that it definitely and completely changed the way we work today is the Internet. Along with these many advantages, people are however also burdened with inefficient parental control, spam , pop-ups, viruses, adware and spyware to name a few. Virtual Environments (VE) are posing themselves as the future of Internet. Today, several 100s of VEs already exist, each addressing a certain target group. These VEs will have to deal with the same negative influence as the Internet of today only now presenting itself in a different package. This paper proposes a solution to guard our future Internet already from the very start from such counterproductive content.

Virtual Learning

2018 ◽  
pp. 1067-1087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Burkle ◽  
Michael Magee
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the seamless learning opportunities that video games and virtual reality offer for learners and instructors. Interacting with content, with each other, and with learning processes in virtual environments, learning becomes a process combined with discovery and fun. The authors analyze emerging trends and learning understandings (epistemologies) built by video game users and learners represented in the forms of avatars. Digital environments are in fact transforming the way learners and instructors (faculty) interact with each other in and across contexts. Using data from two parallel research projects, the chapter examines students' self identity construction, problem solving, and learning in virtual environments. The authors suggest that learning epistemologies that take place in virtual reality should be brought back to the classroom or to the online environment (by the instructional designer or the game developer) and impact the way learning takes place in this ‘real'/physical environments.

Research Progress of Mg-Al Based Alloys

2013 ◽  
Vol 750-752 ◽  
pp. 583-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Jie Song ◽  
Quan An Li ◽  
San Ling Fu ◽  
Wen Jian Liu ◽  
Zhi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Elevated Temperature ◽  
Magnesium Alloys ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Metal Structure ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Creep Characteristics ◽  
Development Direction ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Magnesium alloys as the emerging commercial metal structure material have excellent specific properties and stability, which is more and more vital for researcher. This paper reviews the creep characteristics and the way to enhance the elevated temperature properties of Mg-Al based alloys. The current Mg-Al based alloys (including AZ, AM, AS, AE, etc.) are summarized. The future development direction is pointed.

scholarly journals The Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent BEPS—Some Thoughts on Complexity and Uncertainty

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kleist
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Tax Treaties ◽  
Profit Shifting ◽  
The Future ◽  
Treaty Law ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

Abstract The Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (MLI), which was signed in June 2017, raises a multitude of questions relating not only to the text of the treaty provisions but also to the way the MLI will interact with tax treaties, for instance, and what it will mean for the future development of tax treaty law and international cooperation in tax matters. This article focuses on two aspects of the MLI. First, it deals with the substance of the MLI by providing an overview of its background and content, including the many options available to the contracting states under the MLI. Second, some thoughts are presented on the effects of the MLI in terms of complexity and uncertainty.

Evaluation Method of Vehicle Sound Quality

2012 ◽  
Vol 178-181 ◽  
pp. 2829-2833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ze Fei Tan ◽  
Gang Ping Tan
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Sound Quality ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
The Future ◽  
Quality Issues ◽  
The Way

The study of sound quality which is a newly developed research area has become a hot topic and become to attract increasing attention from academia and industries. The description of sound quality, the technique of subjective and objective evaluation, and the way of improving sound quality inside vehicle are outlined. Based on an extensive discussion over the sound quality issues, the progress in sound quality methodologies and evaluation method are reviewed, and the prospects of the future development are introduced and discussed.

scholarly journals Designing spaces to support collaborative creativity in shared virtual environments

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. e229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Men ◽  
Nick Bryan-Kinns ◽  
Louise Bryce
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Collaborative Creativity ◽  
Working Space ◽  
Short Loop ◽  
Shared Virtual Environments ◽  
And Training ◽  
The Way

Shared virtual environments (SVEs) have been researched extensively within the fields of education, entertainment, work, and training, yet there has been limited research on the creative and collaborative aspects of interactivity in SVEs. The important role that creativity and collaboration play in human society raises the question of the way that virtual working spaces might be designed to support collaborative creativity in SVEs. In this paper, we outline an SVE named LeMo, which allows two people to collaboratively create a short loop of music together. Then we present a study of LeMo, in which 52 users composed music in pairs using four different virtual working space configurations. Key findings indicated by results include: (i) Providing personal space is an effective way to support collaborative creativity in SVEs, (ii) personal spaces with a fluid light-weight boundary could provide enough support, worked better and was preferable to ones with rigid boundaries and (iii) a configuration that provides a movable personal space was preferred to one that provided no mobility. Following these findings, five corresponding design implications for shared virtual environments focusing on supporting collaborative creativity are given and conclusions are made.

Toward Understanding and Evaluating Structural Node Embeddings

2022 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Junchen Jin ◽  
Mark Heimann ◽  
Di Jin ◽  
Danai Koutra
Keyword(s):  
Similarity Measure ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
Network Embedding ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
The Future ◽  
Embedding Methods ◽  
Node Embeddings ◽  
The Way

While most network embedding techniques model the proximity between nodes in a network, recently there has been significant interest in structural embeddings that are based on node equivalences , a notion rooted in sociology: equivalences or positions are collections of nodes that have similar roles—i.e., similar functions, ties or interactions with nodes in other positions—irrespective of their distance or reachability in the network. Unlike the proximity-based methods that are rigorously evaluated in the literature, the evaluation of structural embeddings is less mature. It relies on small synthetic or real networks with labels that are not perfectly defined, and its connection to sociological equivalences has hitherto been vague and tenuous. With new node embedding methods being developed at a breakneck pace, proper evaluation, and systematic characterization of existing approaches will be essential to progress. To fill in this gap, we set out to understand what types of equivalences structural embeddings capture. We are the first to contribute rigorous intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation methodology for structural embeddings, along with carefully-designed, diverse datasets of varying sizes. We observe a number of different evaluation variables that can lead to different results (e.g., choice of similarity measure, classifier, and label definitions). We find that degree distributions within nodes’ local neighborhoods can lead to simple yet effective baselines in their own right and guide the future development of structural embedding. We hope that our findings can influence the design of further node embedding methods and also pave the way for more comprehensive and fair evaluation of structural embedding methods.

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