REVIREN: Augmenting Virtual Environments with Personal Digital Assistants.

Schroder, R and Bosma, M and Cousins, A and Marsden, G (2004) REVIREN: Augmenting Virtual Environments with Personal Digital Assistants., Proceedings of South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 4-6 October, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 135-141.

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Abstract

Our research group is currently embarked on building cheap display-based virtual environments. With the use of Personal Digital Assistants becoming more widespread and commonplace, there is a need to investigate ways of allowing them to integrate better with our computing environment. We feel that these devices' versatility make them ideal as alternative input/output mechanisms for Virtual Environments. By reducing peripheral information and removing display widgets from the main screen, we aim to manage screen real-estate and thus avoid obscuring the user's view of the environment. Our system make use of a virtual shopping mall with various interactive elements designed to highlight the possibilities PDA-based control offers.

Item Type: Conference paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: Mobile interface, PDA, Virtual Environment control, dynamic interface
Subjects: Human-centered computing
Date Deposited: 21 Oct 2005
Last Modified: 10 Oct 2019 15:35
URI: http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/237

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