A virtual 3D mobile guide in the INTERMEDIA project

Article Article scientifique Article A virtual 3D mobile guide in the INTERMEDIA project eng 2008 author Magnenat Thalmann Nadia 24684 author Peternier Achille author Righetti Xavier 126844 author Lim Mingyu 645270 author Papagiannakis Georgios 520414 author Fragopoulos Tasos author Lambropoulou Kyriaki author Barsocchi Paolo author Thalmann Daniel 827-836 10.1007/s00371-008-0264-6 0178-2789 http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00371-008-0264-6 In this paper, we introduce a European research project, interactive media with personal networked devices (INTERMEDIA) in which we seek to progress beyond home and device-centric convergence toward truly user-centric convergence of multimedia. Our vision is to make the user the multimedia center: the user as the point at which multimedia services and the means for interacting with them converge. This paper proposes the main research goals in providing users with a personalized interface and content independent of physical networked devices, and space and time. As a case study, we describe an indoors, mobile mixed reality guide system: Chloe@University. With a see-through head-mounted display (HMD) connected to a small wearable computing device, Chloe@University provides users with an efficient way to guide someone in a building. A 3D virtual character in front of the user guides him/her to the required destination. Interactive media Dynamic networks Personalized and wearable interface Content management Mobile mixed reality Virtual humans Geolocalization Dewey 025.063 Dewey 330/650 Open Access - Licence nationale Springer 13 Centre universitaire d'informatique 0D3 9 Faculté d'économie et de management S false 899 MIRALab The Visual Computer 24 7-9 743d5aa2-bfd7-4ac8-82b3-6b2b3cbe7f1c Article (Published version) Public Magnenat-Thalmann2008_Article_AVirtual3DMobileGuideInTheINTE.pdf 392497 application/pdf openAccess Centres et instituts / Centre universitaire d'informatique Faculté d'économie et de management

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