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A Toolkit for Constructing Virtual Instruments for Augmenting User Interactions and Activities in a Virtual Environment

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2004)

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This paper presents the design and implementation of Virtual Instrument Scripting Toolkit (VIST), a toolkit for constructing virtual instruments. Virtual instruments are handheld computer applications that help probing environmental properties and augmenting user interactions within a virtual environment. The toolkit, VIST, is intended to simplify the creation of components of virtual instruments and to make it possible to quickly prototype a virtual instrument from those components. VIST also provides a mechanism that allows detecting and displaying attributes of virtual objects and environmental properties in a simulated virtual environment. This paper describes the design rationales and architecture that VIST provides, and demonstrates how VIST has been used to build virtual instruments.

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  1. ICU Digital Media Lab, 517-10 Dogok-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea

    Kyoung S. Park

  2. Sangmyung University, 7 Hongji-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea

    Yongjoo Cho

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  1. KES International, 2nd Floor, 145-157 St John Street, EC1V 4PY, London, United Kingdom

    Mircea Gh. Negoita

  2. Centre for SMART systems Engineering Research Centre, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Park, K.S., Cho, Y. (2004). A Toolkit for Constructing Virtual Instruments for Augmenting User Interactions and Activities in a Virtual Environment. In: Negoita, M.G., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3215. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30134-9_15

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