Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality

Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues and Philosophical Implications
Alexander Riegler, Markus Peschl, Karl Edlinger, Günther Fleck, Walter Feigl (eds.)

The concept of «virtuality» has introduced a completely new mode of representing, presenting, as well as acquiring knowledge. The present collection of papers acknowledges this development and gives a survey over the most important developments, issues, and foundations from an interdisciplinary perspective.
This book intends to enlarge the definition of virtual reality in order to go beyond the toy character it may still have in the public. The contributions show that virtuality has not only been successfully applied in various technical and medical domains but also touches basic philosophical problems and questions related to cognitive science. In fact, developing the concept of virtuality further will be the key to many challenges in both theoretical and technical domains.

Table of Contents
Preface
Cognition
Markus F. Peschl, Alexander Riegler: Virtual Science: Virutality and Knowledge Acquisition in Science and Cognition. Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications 2001: 9-32
Shulamith Kreitler: Psychological Perspective on Virtual Reality. Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications 2001: 33-44
Karl Edlinger: Virtual Reality, Cyberspace and Living Organisms: Towards a New Understanding of Perception and Cognition? Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications 2001: 45-62
Steffen P. Walz, Isabel Zundel: Madness & Virtuality: An Approximation. Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications 2001: 63-74
Technology
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Sumedha Kshirsagar: The Emotional Talking Virutal Humans. Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications 2001: 75-84
Arne Wagner, Werner Millesi, Franz Watzinger, Michael Truppe, Michael Rasse, Georg Enislidis, Christian Kermer, Rolf Ewers: Computed Navigation in Cranio-Maxillo-Facial and Oral Head and Neck Surgery: Principles, Indications and Potentials for Telepresence and Teleassistance. Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications 2001: 85-97
Corina Sas, Ronan Reilly, Gregory M. P. O'Hare: Virtual Reality in Surgery: Between Satisfaction and Stress. Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications 2001: 99-111
Christian Stary: Exploring the Concept of Virtuality: Technological Approaches and Implications from Tele-Education. Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications 2001: 113-128
Daniel Mellet d'Huart: From Reality to the "the Real": Using Augmented Virtual Reality for Training. Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications 2001: 129-139
Ashweeni Kumar Beeharee, Steve Pettifer, Adrian J. West: A Framework for Optimising Network Usage for Plausible Distributed Virtual Environments. Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications 2001: 141-158
Gerardo Silva Chandía: VR and Web Page Support in Civil Engineering Education. Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications 2001: 159-165
Philosophy
László Ropolyi: Virtuality and Plurality. Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Technological Issues & Philosophical Implications 2001: 167-187
Stephen E. Robbins: Bergson's Virtual Action. Virtual Reality: Cognitive Foundations, Techn