A TOOL SUPPORTING MODEL BASED USER INTERFACE DESIGN IN 3D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

Joan De Boeck, Chris Raymaekers, Karin Coninx

2008

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 paper 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. and Coninx K. (2008). A TOOL SUPPORTING MODEL BASED USER INTERFACE DESIGN IN 3D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-20-3, pages 367-375. DOI: 10.5220/0001097703670375


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@conference{grapp08,
author={Joan De Boeck and Chris Raymaekers and Karin Coninx},
title={A TOOL SUPPORTING MODEL BASED USER INTERFACE DESIGN IN 3D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={367-375},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001097703670375},
isbn={978-989-8111-20-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - A TOOL SUPPORTING MODEL BASED USER INTERFACE DESIGN IN 3D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
SN - 978-989-8111-20-3
AU - De Boeck J.
AU - Raymaekers C.
AU - Coninx K.
PY - 2008
SP - 367
EP - 375
DO - 10.5220/0001097703670375