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GVU Technical Reports: 2002

Number

Title & Author

02-01

What's Happening?: Promoting Community Awareness through Opportunistic, Peripheral Interfaces

Q. Alex Zhao
John T. Stasko

Abstract
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Postscript

02-02

Enabling the Generation, Preservation & Use of Records and Memories of Everyday Life

Khai N. Truong
Gregory D. Abowd

Abstract
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Postscript

02-03

Edgebreaker: A Simple Compression for Surfaces with Handles

Jarek Rossignac
Helio Lopes
Alla Safanova
Geovan Tavares
Andrzej Szymczak

Abstract
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02-04

SwingWrapper: Retiling Triangle Meshes for Better Compression

Marco Attene
Bianca Falcidieno
Michela Spagnuolo
Jarek Rossignac

Abstract
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Postscript

02-05

Evaluation of a Multimodal Interface for 3D Terrain Visualization

David Krum
Olugbenga Omoteso
William Ribarsky
Thad Starner
Larry F. Hodges

Abstract
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02-06

Speech and Gesture Multimodal Control of a Whole Earth 3D Visualization Environment

David M. Krum
Olugbenga Omoteso
William Ribarsky
Thad Starner
Larry F. Hodges

Abstract
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Postscript

02-07

Situational Visualization

David M. Krum
William Ribarsky
Christopher D. Shaw
Larry F. Hodges
Nickolas Faust

Abstract
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Postscript

02-08

A Computer Music Implementation Course Using Active Essays

Mark Guzdial
Jim Greenlee

Abstract
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02-09

Visual Query of Time-Dependent 3D Weather in a Global Geospatial Environment

William Ribarsky
Nickolas Faust
Zachary Wartell
Christopher Shaw
Justin Jang

Abstract
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Postscript

02-10

Anthropomorphic Agents as a UI Paradigm: Experimental Findings and a Framework for Research

Richard Catrambone
John Stasko
Jun Xiao

Abstract
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Postscript

02-11

Artistically Conveying Peripheral Information with the InfoCanvas

Todd Miller
John Stasko

Abstract
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Postscript

02-13

Solving Computer Animation Problems with Numeric Optimization

Victor Zordan

Abstract
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Postscript

02-14

Organization and Simplification of High Resolution 3D City Facades

Mitchell Parry
William Ribarsky
Christopher Shaw
Justin Jang
Nickolas Faust

Abstract
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02-15

Semi-Automated Landscape Feature Extraction and Modeling

Tony Wasilewski
Nickolas Faust
Matthew Grimes
William Ribarsky

Abstract
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02-16

Privacy Mirrors: Understanding and Shaping Socio-technical Ubiquitous Computing Systems

David H. Nguyen
Elizabeth D. Mynatt

Abstract
PDF
Postscript

02-17

Towards Conversational Speech Recognition for a Wearable Computer Based Appointment Scheduling Agent

Benjamin A. Wong
Thad E. Starner
R. Martin McGuire

Abstract
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Postscript

02-18

New Operations for Display Space Management and Window Management

Dugald Ralph Hutchings
John Stasko

Abstract
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Postscript

02-19

Stereoscopic Head-Tracked Displays: Analysis and Development of Display Algorithms

Zachary Justin Wartell

Abstract
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Postscript

02-20

The Expectation Maximization Algorithm

Frank Dellaert

Abstract
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02-22

Finger Sculpting with Digital Clay

Joshua Gargus
Byungmoon Kim
Ignacio Llamas
Jarek Rossignac
Chris Shaw

Abstract
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Postscript

02-23

Space-Time Surface Simplification and Edgebreaker Compression for 2D Cel Animations

Vivek Kwatra
Jarek Rossignac

Abstract
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Postscript

02-24

Temporal Integratoin of Multiple Silhouette-Based Body-Part Hypotheses

Vivek Kwatra
Aaron Bobick
Amos Johnson

Abstract
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Postscript

02-25

Choreography Driven Characters

Daniel Sternberg
Irfan Essa

Abstract
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Postscript

02-26

Vicariously Sharing Captured Web Experiences through an Automated Recommendation System

Khai N. Truong
Gregory Abowd
Maria da Graa Pimentel

Abstract
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Postscript

02-27

Learning Significant Locations and Predicting User Movement with GPS

Daniel Ashbrook
Thad Starner

Abstract
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02-29

Technology Trends Favor Thick Clients for User-Carried Wireless Devices

Thad Starner

Abstract
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02-30

KeyMenu: A Keyboard Based Hierarchial Menu

Kent Lyons
Nirmal J. Patel
Thad Starner

Abstract
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02-33

Exemplar Based Non-parametric BRDFs

Antonio Haro
Irfan Essa

Abstract
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Postscript

02-34

From Urban Terrain Models to Visible Cities

William Ribarsky
Tony Wasilewski
Nickolas Faust

Abstract
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02-35

Interactive Walls: Addressing the Challenges of Large-scale Interactive Surfaces

Jay Summet
Ramswaroop Somani
Gregory D. Abowd
Jim Rehg

Abstract
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Postscript
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