Noritaka Osawa

Eye Mark Pointer in Immersive Projection Display (2008)

Kikuo Asai, Noritaka Osawa, Hideaki Takahashi, Yuji Y. Sugimoto, Satoshi Yamazaki, Masahiro Samejima, ...

We developed a pointer in 3D virtual space, using an eye tracking system as a sensor. The eye mark pointer is installed to a virtual environment system which provides stereoscopic vision with an...

Proceedings of the 29th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences- 1996 A Visual Performance Debugging System for Parallel Programs (2008)

Noritaka Osawa

This paper describes a visuai performance debugging system for parallel programs. Main features of the system are visualization of program execution, modification of processor scheduling using direct...

Enhanced Hand Manipulation Methods for Efficient and Precise Positioning and Release of Virtual Objects (2008)

OSAWA, Noritaka

Automatic adjustment methods for efficient, precise positioning and release of a virtual 3D object by direct hand manipulation in an immersive virtual reality environment are described and evaluated....

Jigsaw-Puzzle-Like 3D Glyphs for Visualization of Grammatical Constraints (2008)

OSAWA, Noritaka

Three-dimensional visualization using jigsaw-puzzle-like glyphs, or shapes, is proposed as a means of representing grammatical constraints in programming. The proposed visualization uses 3D glyphs...

Multilingual Information Processing using EPICS (2007)

Noritaka Osawa, Toshitsugu Yuba

This paper proposes a character or symbol code system called EPICS for multilingual information processing and discusses its applications. EPICS integrates a variable-length coding system using 16bit...

ABSTRACT 3D Animation Based on Dynamic System Modeling for Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Systems (2007)

Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Noritaka Osawa, Toshitsugu Yuba

This paper describes 3D animation techniques for dynamic behavior such as load balancing of parallel distributed event simulation (PDES) on the basis of motion equations in a dynamic system. First,...

EVALUATION OF A 3-D VISUAL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT IN AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE OF OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (2007)

Keizo Nagaoka, Noritaka Osawa, Kaname Mochizuki, Hideaki Takahashi, Emi Nishina, Fumihiko Saito

Abstract — A newly developed visual programming environment has been evaluated. It allows students to visualize and manipulate programs in 3-D representation. That visual programming environment is...

A Dancing Programmer in an Immersive Virtual Environment (2001)

Noritaka Osawa, Kikuo Asai, Yuji Y. Sugimoto, Fumihiko Saito

Our immersive programming system allows programs to be edited and controlled by direct manipulation and hand gestures in an immersive virtual environment utilizing multimodal interfaces. It lets...