Title :
VGuide: design and performance evaluation of a synchronous collaborative virtual reality application
Author :
Arango, J.M. ; McKinley, P.K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA
Abstract :
The paper describes the design and operation of VGuide, a synchronous virtual reality tool that enables one user to lead a group of users synchronously through a virtual world written in VRML. VGuide employs the services of Pavilion, a middleware framework with support for developing collaborative Web based applications. The major components of VGuide and their interaction are described, followed by results of a performance study on a mobile computing testbed
Keywords :
client-server systems; groupware; information resources; mobile computing; performance evaluation; virtual reality; Pavilion; VGuide; VRML; collaborative Web based applications; middleware framework; mobile computing testbed; performance evaluation; performance study; synchronous collaborative virtual reality application; synchronous virtual reality tool; virtual world; Application software; Collaboration; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Computer aided instruction; Java; Middleware; Mobile computing; Testing; Virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo, 2000. ICME 2000. 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
New York, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6536-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2000.869574
