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Item Open Access Mark A. May: scientific administrator, human engineer(Sage Publications Ltd., 2015) Bryson, D.Underappreciated by historians of the human sciences, educational psychologist Mark A. May played a key role in managing and formulating the policy of the Institute of Human Relations at Yale University, initially as the institute’s executive secretary, then as its director, from 1930 to 1960. Moreover, during the 1920s, the 1930s and after, he participated in a number of conferences, seminars, committees and other projects sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and Rockefeller philanthropic organizations. Focusing on May’s efforts during the interwar period, this article will examine how May worked to advance an integrated program in the psychological and social sciences affiliated with the field of personality and culture. For May, a human engineering agenda geared toward the socialization and education of the individual was intimately connected to his vision of interdisciplinary social science.Item Open Access Virtual human representation and communication in VLNet(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1997) Capin, T. K.; Noser, H.; Thalmann, D.; Pandzic, I. S.; Thalmann, N. M.Using virtual humans to represent participants promotes realism in networked VEs. Different message types used to animate the human body and face impose varying network requirements, as analyzed here.