A framework to manage multimodal fusion of events for advanced interactions within Virtual Environments

TOURAINE, Damien; BOURDOT, Patrick; BELLIK, Yacine; BOLOT, Laurence

A framework to manage multimodal fusion of events for advanced interactions within Virtual Environments

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2002

Authors

TOURAINE, Damien
BOURDOT, Patrick
BELLIK, Yacine
BOLOT, Laurence

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

This paper describes the EVI3d framework, a distributed architecture developed to enhance interactions within Virtual Environments (VE). This framework manages many multi-sensorial devices such as trackers, data gloves, and speech or gesture recognition systems as well as haptic devices. The structure of this architecture allows a complete dispatching of device services and their clients on as many machines as required. With the dated events provided by its time synchronization system, it becomes possible to design a specific module to manage multimodal fusion processes. To this end, we describe how the EVI3d framework manages not only low-level events but also abstract modalities. Moreover, the data flow service of the EVI3d framework solves the problem of sharing the virtual scene between modality modules.

        @inproceedings{10.2312:EGVE/EGVE02/159-168
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments
},
editor = {S. Mueller and W. Stuerzlinger
},
title = {{A framework to manage multimodal fusion of events for advanced interactions within Virtual Environments
}},
author = {TOURAINE, Damien and 
BOURDOT, Patrick and 
BELLIK, Yacine and 
BOLOT, Laurence
},
year = {2002
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {1-58113-535-1
},
DOI = {10.2312/EGVE/EGVE02/159-168
}
}