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Guiding visitors of Web3D worlds through automatically generated tours

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Lucio IeronuttiAuthors Info & Claims

Web3D '03: Proceedings of the eighth international conference on 3D Web technology

Pages 27 - 38

https://doi.org/10.1145/636593.636598

Published: 09 March 2003 Publication History

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Many Web3D sites do not offer sufficient assistance to (especially novice) users in navigating the virtual world, find objects/places of interests, and learn how to interact with them. This paper aims at helping the Web3D content creator to face this problem by: (i) proposing the adoption of guided tours of virtual worlds as an effective user aid and (ii) describing a novel tool that provides automatic code generation for adding such guided tours to VRML worlds. Finally, we will show how the tool has been used in the development of an application concerning a 3D computer science museum.

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Index Terms

Guiding visitors of Web3D worlds through automatically generated tours
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Graphics input devices
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Mixed / augmented reality
      2. Virtual reality

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Web3D '03: Proceedings of the eighth international conference on 3D Web technology

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DOI:10.1145/636593

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