Prototyping Pre-implementation Designs of Virtual Environment Behaviour

  • Authors:
  • James S. Willans;Michael D. Harrison

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • EHCI '01 Proceedings of the 8th IFIP International Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Virtual environments lack a standardised interface between the user and application, this makes it possible for the interface to be highly customised for the demands of individual applications. However, this requires a development process where the interface can be carefully designed to meet the requirements of an application. In practice, an ad-hoc development process is used which is heavily reliant on a developer's craft skills. A number of formalisms have been developed to address the problem of establishing the behavioural requirements by supporting its design prior to implementation. We have developed the Marigold toolset which provides a transition from one such formalism, Flownets, to a prototype-implementation. In this paper we demonstrate the use of the Marigold toolset for prototyping a small environment.