Title :
Agent-aided collaborative virtual environments over HLA/RTI
Author :
Shen, Xiaojun ; Hage, Ramsey ; Georganas, Nicolas
Author_Institution :
Multimedia Commun. Res. Lab., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
This paper introduces a collaborative virtual environment (CVE) system over the Internet. A Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) 97-based user interface is developed to permit users to navigate around the virtual world. Voice-enabled interactive agents provide a more natural interface to help users interact with each other and with the virtual world. Real-time interactions between entities in this environment are implemented over the run-time infrastructure (RTI) of the High Level Architecture (HLA). For this, a Java adapter is developed to ensure the inter-operations between the VRML environments and HLA/RTI. An application to e-commerce is highlighted
Keywords :
Internet; Java; electronic commerce; groupware; military computing; real-time systems; software agents; user interfaces; virtual reality languages; HLA; High Level Architecture; Internet; Java adapter; RTI; VRML; Virtual Reality Modeling Language; collaborative virtual environments; e-commerce; run-time infrastructure; user interface; voice-enabled interactive agents; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Communication industry; Electrical capacitance tomography; Information technology; Internet; Protocols; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Web sites;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Interactive Simulation and Real-Time Applications, 1999. Proceedings. 3rd IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Greenbelt, MD
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0459-0
DOI :
10.1109/DISRTA.1999.807734
