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A virtual 3D mobile guide in the INTERMEDIA project

Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia ; Peternier, Achille ; Righetti, Xavier ; Lim, Mingyu ; Papagiannakis, George ; Fragopoulos, Tasos ; Lambropoulou, Kyriaki ; Barsocchi, Paolo ; Thalmann, Daniel

In: The Visual Computer, 2008, vol. 24, no. 7-9, p. 827-836

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    Titre
    • A virtual 3D mobile guide in the INTERMEDIA project
    Auteur
    • Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia. MIRALab, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Peternier, Achille. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Righetti, Xavier. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Lim, Mingyu. MIRALab, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Papagiannakis, George. MIRALab, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Fragopoulos, Tasos. ISI, 26500, Platani Patras, Greece
    • Lambropoulou, Kyriaki. INTRACOM, 19002, Peania, Attica, Greece
    • Barsocchi, Paolo. CNR, 00185, Rome, Italy
    • Thalmann, Daniel. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:312255
    Summary
    In this paper, we introduce a European research project, interactive media with personal networked devices (INTERMEDIA) in which we seek to progress beyond home and device-centric convergence toward truly user-centric convergence of multimedia. Our vision is to make the user the multimedia center: the user as the point at which multimedia services and the means for interacting with them converge. This paper proposes the main research goals in providing users with a personalized interface and content independent of physical networked devices, and space and time. As a case study, we describe an indoors, mobile mixed reality guide system: Chloe@University. With a see-through head-mounted display (HMD) connected to a small wearable computing device, Chloe@University provides users with an efficient way to guide someone in a building. A 3D virtual character in front of the user guides him/her to the required destination