The alloSphere: Immersive multimedia for scientific discovery and artistic exploration

IEEE Multimedia

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 64-75

  Amatriain, Xavier ^a   Kuchera Morin, JoAnn ^b   Höllerer, Tobias ^c   Travis Pope, Stephen ^b  

^a TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

3D audio; Bridges; Data mining; Human computer interaction; Immersive environments; Instruments; Media; Scientific visualization; Spherical displays; Stereographic displays; Streaming media; Three dimensional displays; Visualization

Indexed keywords

3D AUDIO; IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS; MEDIA; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION; SPHERICAL DISPLAYS; STEREOGRAPHIC DISPLAYS; STREAMING MEDIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL DISPLAYS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MINING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 68349141578     PISSN: 1070986X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MMUL.2009.35     Document Type: Article

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