A collaborative 3D environment for authoring design semantics

Author

Cera, Christopher D. ; Regli, William C. ; Braude, Ilya ; Shapirstein, Yuri ; Foster, Cheryl V.

Author_Institution

Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

Volume

22

Issue

3

fYear

2002

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

55

Abstract

This article presents an approach to collaborative authoring of design semantics within a multiuser 3D environment. Our research unites ideas from traditional engineering design with recent work from the Semantic Web and knowledge engineering community. The system we present, Multiuser Groups for Conceptual Understanding and Prototyping (MUG), serves as our research platform. it lets a team of designers-collaborating over the Internet in a shared, multimodal, 3D workspace-model a 3D layout and semantically grounded behavioral description of a product or device

Keywords

CAD; Internet; authoring systems; engineering graphics; groupware; 3D layout modelling; Internet; Multiuser Groups for Conceptual Understanding and Prototyping; Semantic Web; collaborative authoring; design semantics; engineering design; knowledge engineering; multiuser 3D environment; semantically grounded behavioral description; shared multimodal 3D workspace; Aerospace industry; Automotive engineering; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Construction industry; Design automation; Java; Manufacturing industries; Microstrip; Semantic Web;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCG.2002.999787

Filename

999787