Authors:
Christos Bouras
1
;
Kostas Kartsakalis
2
;
V. Triglianos
3
and
Th. Tsiatsos
4
Affiliations:
1
University of Patras and RACTI, Greece
;
2
Univ. of Patras, Greece
;
3
Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (CTI), Greece
;
4
Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Keyword(s):
H-Anim, Graphical User Interface, Networked Virtual Environments, VRML, X3D.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Environments
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Graphical Interfaces
;
Interactive Environments
Abstract:
This paper addresses the problem of a visual H-Anim avatar editor. Although H-Anim is a very promising standard for interchangeable avatars and avatar’s animation, the lack of an effective yet simple to use visual avatar editor could repel users from H-Anim compliant Networked Virtual Environments. Therefore this paper presents an H-Anim compliant editor, called HanimE, for creating avatars for Networked Virtual Environments. This editor is entirely based on a graphical user interface and allows users to customize H-Anim avatars, in a simple yet effective manner. The avatars created by HanimE can be integrated in various H-Anim compliant Networked Virtual Environments regardless of the technology they are built on, since they are X3D files.