An Event Driven Approach for Integrating Multi-sensory Effects to Interactive Environments

The paper presents an event driven approach for building interactive environments with sensory effects (such as RGB color light, wind and vibration) described through MPEGV standard. The most important differences of this work from previous ones are: (1) it divides the design process into well defined stages, showing the behavior of the system under a new perspective and their interactions, (2) it follows an event driven paradigm instead of a timeline one to send commands to sensory devices and (3) it decouples rendering of MPEG-V effects from the presentation software component. The method to validate the proposed approach was a case study, which has integrated multiples sensory effects to an interactive environment based on gesture recognizing.