Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are pushing from the labs towards
consumers, especially with social applications. These applications require visual …

This article reports the impact of the degree of personalization and individualization of users'
avatars as well as the impact of the degree of immersion on typical psychophysical factors in …

Immersive virtual reality (VR) shows a lot of potential for the training of professionals in the
emergency response domain. Firefighters occupy a unique position among emergency …

Virtual reality plays an increasingly important role in research and therapy of pathological
fear. However, the mechanisms how virtual environments elicit and modify fear responses …

Telecollaboration involves the teleportation of a remote collaborator to another real-world
environment where their partner is located. The fidelity of the environment plays an …

Presence is one of the most studied and most important variables in immersive virtual reality
(VR) and it influences the effectiveness of many VR applications. Separate bodies of …

One of the most critical issues related to the current application of virtual reality during
design appraisal is the inability to have a collaborative virtual environment where a group of …

Recent advances in 3D reconstruction and tracking technologies have made it possible to
volumetrically capture human body and performance at real time. In the field of human …

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the effect of different types of self-
representations through floating members (hands vs. hands+ feet), virtual full body (hands+ …

Over the last 30 years, the last planner system (LPS), as a Lean-driven production planning
and control tool, has consistently demonstrated its capability to improve planning reliability …