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A sentient map enables the user to view a collection of information items as a map so that gestures, or more specifically c-gestures, can be used for the interaction between the user and the information system. Different c-gestures are dynamically transformed into spatial/temporal queries, or σ-queries, for accessing the information items in multimedia databases and data sources. An application in e-learning called the Growing Book is described. The visual computing paradigm offered by the sentient map can be summarized as follows: “I come, I see, I gesture”.
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Chang, SK. Sentient map – a new paradigm for visual computing. Soft Computing 7, 2–8 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-002-0167-9
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