Title : 
A distributed multiuser virtual space system
         
        
            Author : 
Endo, Mamoru ; Yasuda, Takami ; Yokoi, Shigeki
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Nagoya Univ., Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Today, in an era of increased Internet use, tools designed to help users communicate across the network have begun to proliferate. Interest in virtual 3D spaces is growing too. We outline a technique for directly transferring the necessary parameter information to express virtual human emotions across a network. We also discuss the methods required for constructing a system that can facilitate this kind of direct transfer using distributed object technology. We offer a method for integrating the services of our system and a constructed database of movements. Finally, we propose various quality-of-service (QoS) techniques for effective motion information transfer in our constructed system.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Internet; computer animation; distributed object management; groupware; quality of service; user interfaces; virtual reality; visual databases; Internet; database; distributed multiuser virtual space system; distributed object technology; motion information transfer; quality-of-service; virtual 3D spaces; virtual human emotions; Avatars; Communication system security; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Databases; Design optimization; Java; Motion control; Network servers; Skeleton;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MCG.2003.1159613