3D Interaction assistance through context-awareness

• Published in: 2012 IEEE Virtual Reality Workshops (VRW) pp. 103 - 104
• Main Authors: Dennemont, Y., Bouyer, G., Otmane, S., Mallem, M.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.03.2012
• Subjects: [I.3.7]: Computer Graphics - Virtual reality; Cognition; Context; Engines; I.2.4 [Computing Methodologies]: Knowledge Representation Formalism and Methods; I.3.6 [Methodology and Techniques Subjects]: Interaction Techniques; Semantics; Three dimensional displays; Usability; Visualization
• ISBN: 9781467312479; 1467312479
• ISSN: 1087-8270
• DOI: 10.1109/VR.2012.6180903

This work focuses on enabling 3D interaction assistance by adding adaptivity depending on the tasks, objectives, and the general interaction context. We model the context using Conceptual Graphs (CG) based on an ontology. Including CG in our scene manager (Virtools) allows us to add semantic information and to describe the available tools. We handle rules leading to adaptation with a logic programming layer (Prolog+CG) included in the Amine platform. This project is a step towards Intelligent Virtual Environments, which proposes a hybrid solution by adding a separate semantic reasoning to classic environments. The first case study automatically manages few modalities depending on the distance to objects, user movement, available tools and modality risks.