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A novel method for supporting collaborative interaction management in Web-based CVE

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Qingping Lin,

Weihua Wang,

Liang Zhang,

Tian Fook ChooAuthors Info & Claims

VRST '03: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology

Pages 124 - 131

https://doi.org/10.1145/1008653.1008676

Published: 01 October 2003 Publication History

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The capabilities of Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)/Extensible 3D (X3D) permit building collaborative virtual environments (CVE) using the Internet and the World Wide Web. However, they do not provide a multi-user collaborative interaction management mechanism for CVE applications except the External Authoring Interface that allows communication between external program and VRML browser. The authors of such applications must manage the interactions among the interactive entities by themselves through capturing user interaction with particular virtual entities and propagating them to the affected users. This application-specific method leads to inflexibility in reusing collaborative role definitions and adapting various collaborative interaction management methods. In this paper, we propose a Collaborative Behavior Description Language(CDBL) to address the identified issues. The syntax and sample applications of CBDL will be presented in details. Our work shows that CBDL enables the reuse of collaborative role definitions and scene descriptions to construct flexible CVE with adaptive underlying collaborative interaction management methods.

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Ahmed DShirmohammadi SDe Oliveira J(2006)A Novel Method for Supporting Massively Multi-user Virtual Environments2006 IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Applications (HAVE 2006)10.1109/HAVE.2006.283807(72-77)Online publication date: Nov-2006
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