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A game-engine based virtual museum authoring and presentation system

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Victor Mateevitsi,

Michael Sfakianos,

George Lepouras,

Costas VassilakisAuthors Info & Claims

DIMEA '08: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

Pages 451 - 457

https://doi.org/10.1145/1413634.1413714

Published: 10 September 2008 Publication History

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In this paper we present a system that facilitates virtual museum development and usage. The system is based on a game engine, ensuring thus minimal cost and good performance, and includes provisions that enable museum curators design the virtual museum without any specialized knowledge. Besides visual and auditory information, museum curators may also provide metadata which provide additional information to the visitor, while they can be also exploited for searching for exhibits with certain properties. A guide is also included in the museum, to present additional information to the visitors and aid them throughout their tour.

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A game-engine based virtual museum authoring and presentation system
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Graphics input devices
    2. Interaction paradigms

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DOI:10.1145/1413634

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