Virtual Reality Ontology Object Manipulation (VROOM)

Margarita Vinnikov, Daniel Vergilis, Uras Oran, James Geller

2022

Abstract

Biomedical ontologies are considered important repositories of knowledge about the medical domain and related fields. They are best thought of as node-link networks, where each node represents one single (medical) concept and links express binary relationships between pairs of concepts. The most important relationship (“IS-A”) is used to form a generalization hierarchy among the concepts. Visualizing and manipulating such a network when it includes more than a few hundred nodes can be challenging. This paper presents a new system called VROOM (Virtual Reality Ontology Object Manipulation) that supports browsing and interaction with a biomedical ontology in a virtual 3-D space, enabling more natural and realistic interaction with and navigation through the ontology network.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Vinnikov M., Vergilis D., Oran U. and Geller J. (2022). Virtual Reality Ontology Object Manipulation (VROOM). In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2022) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-552-4, SciTePress, pages 361-368. DOI: 10.5220/0010787700003123

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf22,
author={Margarita Vinnikov and Daniel Vergilis and Uras Oran and James Geller},
title={Virtual Reality Ontology Object Manipulation (VROOM)},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2022) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF},
year={2022},
pages={361-368},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010787700003123},
isbn={978-989-758-552-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2022) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF
TI - Virtual Reality Ontology Object Manipulation (VROOM)
SN - 978-989-758-552-4
AU - Vinnikov M.
AU - Vergilis D.
AU - Oran U.
AU - Geller J.
PY - 2022
SP - 361
EP - 368
DO - 10.5220/0010787700003123
PB - SciTePress