Title :
Design and implementation of the browser for the multimedia multi-user dungeon of the digital museum
Author :
Yura, Shunsuke ; Usaka, Tomonori ; Fujimori, Kazuhiko ; Sakamura, Ken
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Sci., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
The paper describes a design and implementation of the browser for the Digital Museum multimedia multi user dungeon (MMMUD). MMMUD browser is a user interface software to the multi user virtual environment provided by MMMUD. We introduce two ideas to realize MMMUD browser with kiosk terminals: the tool metaphor and the video guide. The tool metaphor is a unified interface for acquiring precise information of materials in the virtual environment. Since the tool metaphor imitates real tools used to observe objects precisely in the real world, it is a natural and intuitive interface for the user in the virtual environment. The video guide is an embedded video image in the virtual environment and provides information about the virtual environment to the user
Keywords :
human factors; humanities; information retrieval; interactive systems; multi-access systems; multimedia systems; user interfaces; virtual reality; MMMUD browser; digital museum; embedded video image; intuitive interface; kiosk terminals; multi user virtual environment; multimedia multi user dungeon; real world; tool metaphor; unified interface; user interface software; video guide; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Computer displays; Electronic mail; Information science; Multimedia databases; Network servers; User interfaces; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Human Interaction, 1998. Proceedings. 3rd Asia Pacific
Conference_Location :
Shonan Village Center
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8347-3
DOI :
10.1109/APCHI.1998.704144
