Abstract
Although interactive virtual environments (IVE) have the capability to offer intuitive and easy to use interfaces, their creation is often a long and expensive process, in which specialists play a key role. The VR-DeMo approach investigates how the use of high-level specifications may help to overcome this problem: instead of coding an IVE using a low level programming language, high-level models are used. As such, a model-based process combines a series of models containing a mixture of manual and automatic processes. The usefulness of a model based process relies on available tool support. Supporting the VR-DeMo process, this article introduces CoGenIVE. This tool has been used in order to develop a series of demonstrators, all based on real-life cases in different domains. From this experience, the VR-DeMo approach and more particular CoGenIVE have proven to be useful to develop interactive virtual environments using high-level specifications.
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De Boeck, J., Raymaekers, C., Coninx, K. (2009). CoGenIVE: Building 3D Virtual Environments Using a Model Based User Interface Design Approach. In: Ranchordas, A., Araújo, H.J., Pereira, J.M., Braz, J. (eds) Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications. VISIGRAPP 2008. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10226-4_7
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