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Experiments Towards 3D Immersive Interaction for Digital Libraries

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Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment (Edutainment 2006)

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We describe in this paper an experimental setting for browsing and reading simultaneously multiple digital documents. An hemispherical visualization device is used to immerge the reader into 3D representations of digital collections.

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Almeida, R., Cubaud, P., Dupire, J., Natkin, S., Topol, A. (2006). Experiments Towards 3D Immersive Interaction for Digital Libraries. In: Pan, Z., Aylett, R., Diener, H., Jin, X., Göbel, S., Li, L. (eds) Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment. Edutainment 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3942. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11736639_168

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