A Meta-Authoring Tool for Specifying Interactions in Virtual Reality Environments

ACM International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality and Visualisation in Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 171-180

  Hendricks, Zayd ^a   Marsden, Gary ^a   Blake, Edwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Behavior; Interaction; Migrating user support; Scripting languages; Virtual reality; Virtual reality authoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MIGRATION USER SUPPORT; SCRIPTING LANGUAGES; VIRTUAL REALITY AUTHORING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 1442303521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/602330.602362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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