Guiding visitors of Web3D worlds through automatically generated tours

Web3D Symposium Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 27-38

  Chittaro, Luca ^a   Ranon, Roberto ^a   Ieronutti, Lucio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Animated characters; H anim; Navigation aids; Virtual museums; VRML

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMATED CHARACTERS; VIRTUAL MUSEUMS; VIRTUAL REALITY MODELING LANGUAGE; WEB THREE DIMENSIONAL SITES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84878270405     PISSN: 15529886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/636596.636598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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