TY - GEN
T1 - Babel VR
T2 - 21st International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, HCII 2019
AU - Lemos, Jonatan
AU - Finn, Ed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper presents the results of the development of a system called Babel VR, part of a work-in-progress research project aimed at obtaining insights into how a multimodal virtual reality environment can enhance shelf browsing and the discovery of books that exist in a physical library. Babel VR provides a virtual browsing experience of library items which display bibliographic attributes such as title, author, topic and location in a library, aided by the use of voice commands. The representation of physical library shelves enables the possibility of having some affordances of physical browsing within a virtual environment, while at the same time providing readers with a browsing experience enhanced by multimodal features such as the use of voice commands for searching and browsing.
AB - This paper presents the results of the development of a system called Babel VR, part of a work-in-progress research project aimed at obtaining insights into how a multimodal virtual reality environment can enhance shelf browsing and the discovery of books that exist in a physical library. Babel VR provides a virtual browsing experience of library items which display bibliographic attributes such as title, author, topic and location in a library, aided by the use of voice commands. The representation of physical library shelves enables the possibility of having some affordances of physical browsing within a virtual environment, while at the same time providing readers with a browsing experience enhanced by multimodal features such as the use of voice commands for searching and browsing.
KW - Book discovery
KW - Multimodal environment
KW - Virtual reality library
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-30712-7_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-30712-7_5
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85075818290
SN - 9783030307110
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 30
EP - 38
BT - HCI International 2019 – Late Breaking Posters - 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Stephanidis, Constantine
A2 - Antona, Margherita
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 26 July 2019 through 31 July 2019
ER -