Current virtual environment (VEs) input techniques often overlook speech as a useful control
modality. Speech could improve interaction in multimodal VEs by enabling users to address …

With the emergence of speech-controlled virtual agents (VAs) in consumer devices such as
Amazon's Echo or Apple's HomePod, we have seen a large public interest in related …

This work investigates novel alternative means of interaction in a virtual environment (VE).
We analyze whether humans can remap established body functions to learn to interact with …

Generative AI tools can provide people with the ability to create virtual environments and
scenes with natural language prompts. Yet, how people will formulate such prompts is …

Abstract The Virtual Agent Interaction Framework (VAIF) is an authoring tool for creating
virtual-reality applications with embodied conversational agents. VAIF is intended for use by …

Interaction with virtual 3D environments comes with a host of challenges. For instance,
because 3D objects tend to occlude one another, performing object selection by pointing …

With the progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) and rapid development of wearable
smart devices like smart glasses, there is a growing opportunity for users to interact with on …

Virtual Reality (VR) has revolutionized how we interact with digital worlds. However,
programming for VR remains a complex and challenging task, requiring specialized skills …

Generative AI tools can provide people with the ability to create virtual environments and
scenes with natural language prompts. Yet, how people will formulate such prompts is …

Virtual reality has sometimes been thought of as embodying a return to a 'natural'way of
interacting by direct manipulation of objects in a world. However, in the everyday world we …