3D INTERACTION ASSISTANCE THROUGH CONTEXT-AWARENESS - A Semantic Reasoning Engine for Classic Virtual Environment

Dennemont Yannick, Guillaume Bouyer, Samir Otmane, Malik Mallem

2012

Abstract

This work focuses on 3D interaction assistance by adding adaptivity depending on the tasks, the objectives, and the general interaction context. The context is modelled with Conceptual Graphs (CG) based on an ontology. Including CG in our scene manager (Virtools) allows us to add semantic information and to describe the available tools. Adaptation result from rules handled with a logic programming layer (Prolog+CG) included in the Amine platform. This project is a step towards Intelligent Virtual Environments, which proposes a hybrid solution by adding a separate semantic reasoning to classic environments. The first experiment automatically manages few modalities depending on the distance to objects, user movement, available tools and modalities.

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Yannick D., Bouyer G., Otmane S. and Mallem M. (2012). 3D INTERACTION ASSISTANCE THROUGH CONTEXT-AWARENESS - A Semantic Reasoning Engine for Classic Virtual Environment . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: SIMIE, (VISIGRAPP 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-02-0, pages 562-567. DOI: 10.5220/0003946205620567


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@conference{simie12,
author={Dennemont Yannick and Guillaume Bouyer and Samir Otmane and Malik Mallem},
title={3D INTERACTION ASSISTANCE THROUGH CONTEXT-AWARENESS - A Semantic Reasoning Engine for Classic Virtual Environment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: SIMIE, (VISIGRAPP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={562-567},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003946205620567},
isbn={978-989-8565-02-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: SIMIE, (VISIGRAPP 2012)
TI - 3D INTERACTION ASSISTANCE THROUGH CONTEXT-AWARENESS - A Semantic Reasoning Engine for Classic Virtual Environment
SN - 978-989-8565-02-0
AU - Yannick D.
AU - Bouyer G.
AU - Otmane S.
AU - Mallem M.
PY - 2012
SP - 562
EP - 567
DO - 10.5220/0003946205620567