Author:
Rieko Kadobayashi
Affiliation:
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Keyword(s):
3D Blog, 3D viewpoint information, Community support, Blog search, TrackBack, Viewpoint similarity.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Multimedia and User Interfaces
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Searching and Browsing
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Web Information Systems and Technologies
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Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
The 3D Blog system allows a user to interact with a 3D model, annotate any spot on the model, and publish the annotations in a blog so that the user can easily communicate with other people and share interests, idea, and questions about 3D models of interest to the user. The main features of the system is that each annotation is saved as a blog entry with 3D viewpoint information, i.e., the user’s viewpoint and view direction as well as 3D information on annotated points. With this 3D viewpoint information, readers of a 3D Blog can reconstruct the exact same 3D scene the blogger saw when reading the blog entry, and, therefore, the readers may understand it better. The system also uses the 3D viewpoint information to detect similar entries and sends trackback links automatically to enable users to easily find people who may have similar interests. Users can easily and intuitively compare the similar entries using the “playback” function which renders the 3D scene in the similar entrie
s. The 3D Blog system is expected to promote emergence of communities of people who share interests and support their communication.
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