Title
Navigating 3D Virtual Environments by Following Embodied Agents: a Proposal and its Informal Evaluation on a Virtual Museum Application
Abstract
Many 3D virtual environments (e.g., 3D Web sites) do not offer sufficient assistance to (especially novice) users in navigating the virtual environment, find objects/places of interests, and learn how to interact with them. This paper proposes the adoption of guided tours of virtual environments as an effective user aid and describes a novel tool that provides automatic code generation for adding such guided tours to 3D virtual environments developed using the VRML language. In the second part of the paper, we informally evaluate the proposed approach on a real-world application concerning a 3D computer science museum (a complement to a real-world exhibition focusing on the history of computer technology).
Year
Venue
Keywords
2004
PsychNology Journal
embodied agents.,navigation aids,virtual museums,3d virtual environments,virtual environment,embodied agent
Field
DocType
Volume
Virtual machine,VRML,Psychology,Exhibition,Embodied cognition,Code generation,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Computer technology,Instructional simulation
Journal
2
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
17
1.09
References 
Authors
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Chittaro12083177.40
Lucio Ieronutti223820.08
Roberto Ranon339233.19