Article I want to read

Can't access it using JCU's subscriptions...

For the time being..

So I don't lose track of it later/forget about it:

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi?doc=doi/10.1109/AMS.2009.34

A Low Cost Approach to Pediatric Pedestrian Safety in Virtual Reality

Bandung, Bali, Indonesia

May 25-May 29

ISBN: 978-0-7695-3648-4

Kuldeep Pandey

Gary J. Grimes

David C. Schwebel

Abstract

Virtual reality (VR) technology has shown tremendous advancements in recent times. Several VR tools have been developed which depict advanced virtual environments that allow user interaction and manipulation. These tools have found many applications in training and learning. A VR tool is proposed in this paper to study the behavior of children when they are faced with real-world situations of road safety. The driver for this study is the fact that pedestrian injuries are a major cause of death among children ages 5-9 in the United States. The proposed VR tool includes VR software and hardware to simulate a virtual environment faced by a typical pedestrian while crossing the street(s). The VR tool represents a street with simulated traffic patterns and an avatar to represent the pedestrian. It is aimed at training children on safely crossing the roads in order to avoid accidents. The virtual environment will allow users to engage in (and investigators to measure)street-crossing behavior in a controlled environment.

Literature Review - Draft-Draft!

Been working on my lit review all day long. Then remembered I actually haven't sat down and updated my blog in a while. Really have to get into the habit of doing that.

The lit review I'm writing up though is a draft of a draft. As in, the one that gets handed in next week is a 10 page draft to lead up to our final one (25 pages) in the thesis. Currently I have.. not enough pages. 6 I think.

Updated some stuff in my wiki earlier as I was going through and referencing documents. http://code.google.com/p/honours-3d-paluma/wiki/Papers

I'm honestly not sure if I can get everything from my lit review complete in a cohesive manner in by 5 though... Just trying to figure out how to explain everything with referencing is rather troublesome. I still have to had in my proposal to Ian after this as well, but I need to change/update some aspects of it to reflect my current project though as it has changed since I last looked at it. Then to forward it onto Philip.

Gonna get back to working on the lit review now. May/may not come back later to write about it all, but shall see.