Author:
Jacek Chmielewski
Affiliation:
Poznań University of Economics, Poland
Keyword(s):
Metadata, Virtual reality, Interactive 3D, Interactive multimedia, XML.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
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Information Extraction
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Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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Software Development
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Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Proliferation of 3D technology is visible in many aspects of current software developments. It is possible to find elements of 3D in many applications, from computer games, to professional engineering software, to end user software. It is especially important in the end user field, where 3D technology is usually used to provide natural and intuitive user interface. Fast development of such new applications can be driven by reuse of interactive 3D objects that are built for one application and reused in many others. Nowadays, number of such objects are stored in shared repositories and pose a challenge of finding right objects for new application. To efficiently search for interactive 3D objects it is required to provide metadata of object geometry, semantics and its interactions. Existing metadata standards can deal only with the first two areas. In this paper a new approach to interaction metadata is presented. The proposed Multimedia Interaction Model is accompanied by an Interacti
on Interface concept that allows creating interaction metadata not limited to a predefined set of description elements. Interaction Interface concept provides a method and tools for defining new description elements in a way suitable for automatic processing and automatic analysis by search engines.
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