Preview of recommended routes in large-scale virtual environments

Authors:
Pedram Sadeghian;Mehmed Kantardzic;Oleksandr Lozitskiy;Yuriy Lozitskiy
Affiliations:
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY;University of Louisville, Louisville, KY;University of Louisville, Louisville, KY;University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM international conference on Virtual reality continuum and its applications
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In large-scale virtual environments (VEs), there is often more than one possible route to a destination, and each of the VE users may have their own route preferences. In this paper, we introduce a route preview tool to help users select a desirable route out of several alternative routes, without having to first travel any of the candidate routes. The route preview tool has both a text component to highlight the quantitative features of the routes (ex. time to travel the route, distance of the route, number of turns in the route) and an image component to highlight the qualitative features (ex. scenery and objects along the route). Our experiments showed that the proposed route preview tool is informative, capable of highlighting the most salient features of the routes, and provides the necessary support to help users select an appropriate route.