| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M66448/01 |
| Title: |
DEVA: AN ARCHITECTURAL FRAMEWORK FOR MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Pettifer, Professor S |
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Computer Science |
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Victoria University of Manchester, The |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1999 |
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30 September 2002 |
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202,201
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The central argument of this proposal is that virtual environments (VEs) bring important new capabilities to HCI, but that the current state of VE systems architecture limits the ability to specify complexity of behaviour necessary to convincingly demonstrate these advantages. We aim to develop a new architecture that will show how these limitations may be overcome.To date, the technological challenge for VE systems has been largely constrained by the problems of image generation and distributed systems issues. However, although these are both crucial enabling technologies, the gulf between what you can do in a virtual environment and what you can do in the real world is far greater than between the corresponding difference in visual appearance. This is because behavioural complexity is difficult and laborious to program using the mechanisms available to comtemporary VE systems programmers. The fundamental research challenge is to address this lack of behavioural sophistication.Our research will develop a generic multi-user system architecture that significantly eases the task of creating VE applications that require a more sophisticated behaviour and interaction than can be currently achieved.
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