The role of emotion in believable agents
Communications of the ACM
Artificial fishes: physics, locomotion, perception, behavior
SIGGRAPH '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
NICE: combining constructionism, narrative and collaboration in a virtual learning environment
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
The ALIVE system: full-body interaction with autonomous agents
CA '95 Proceedings of the Computer Animation
Virtual reality for education?
VRST '00 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
VRID: a design model and methodology for developing virtual reality interfaces
VRST '01 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
Designing Animal Habitats Within an Immersive VE
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Distance Learning Classroom Using Virtual Harlem
VSMM '01 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM'01)
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Educators Program
Learning and Building Together in an Immersive Virtual World
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
The Educational Value of an Information-Rich Virtual Environment
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Applying clustering algorithms to web-based adaptive virtual environments
Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Making virtual reality useful: A report on immersive applications at Iowa State University
Future Generation Computer Systems
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The Virtual Reality Gorilla Exhibit teaches users about gorilla behaviors and social interactions. Building a virtual environment for educational purposes requires accurate representation, since it is difficult to predict ahead of time what aspects of the environment the student will focus on. While simplifications are needed to maintain an interactive frame rate, hard data must underlie all aspects of the system. We present here some of the techniques we used to build our Virtual Gorilla Exhibit environment and the virtual gorillas that inhabit it, along with the theory behind the project and results from some preliminary user testing.