Table Of ContentAPPLICATIONS OF
VIRTUAL REALITY
Edited by Cecília Sík Lányi
Applications of Virtual Reality
Edited by Cecília Sík Lányi
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Contents
Preface IX
Chapter 1 Virtual Design of Piston Production Line 1
Zhou Jun, Li Puhong, Zhang Yanliang,
Deng Jianxin and Liu Zhanqiang
Chapter 2 Changing Skills in Changing Environments:
Skills Needed in Virtual Construction Teams 31
Willy Sher, Sue Sherratt,
Anthony Williams and Rod Gameson
Chapter 3 Virtual Garment Creation 49
Ausma Viļumsone and Inga Dāboliņa
Chapter 4 Human Visual Field and Navigational Strategies 73
J. Antonio Aznar-Casanova,
Nelson Torro-Alves and José A. da Silva
Chapter 5 Virtual Worlds as an Extended Classroom 89
Ana Loureiro, Ana Santos and Teresa Bettencourt
Chapter 6 3D Multi User Learning Environment Management –
An Exploratory Study on Student Engagement with
the Learning Environment 109
Indika Perera, Colin Allison
and Alan Miller
Chapter 7 Methodology for the Construction of a
Virtual Environment for the Simulation of
Critical Processes 135
Tadeu Augusto de Almeida Silva
and Oscar Luiz Monteiro de Farias
Chapter 8 Immersive Visual Data Mining Based on
Super High Definition Image 153
Tetsuro Ogi, Yoshisuke Tateyama
and So Sato
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Chapter 9 Realizing Semantic Virtual Environments with
Ontology and Pluggable Procedures 171
Yu-Lin Chu and Tsai-Yen Li
Chapter 10 An Overview of Interaction Techniques and
3D Representations for Data Mining 185
Ben Said Zohra, Guillet Fabrice, Richard Paul,
Blanchard Julien and Picarougne Fabien
Preface
Information Technology is growing rapidly. With the birth of high-resolution
graphics, high-speed computing and user interaction devices, Virtual Reality has
emerged as a major new technology in the mid 90es, last century. An explosion has
occurred in our understanding of Virtual Reality, Virtual Environments and in the
technologies required to produce them in the last decade. Virtual Worlds and Virtual
Environments are produced for people, for users to interact with computer and with
complex information sets. It became a commonplace in our increasingly technological
world in recent years. These Virtual Reality Applications cover almost all fields of the
real life activities. Another standpoint is the ergonomic and psychological concerns
that must be investigated, in this way the people will enjoy using Virtual Reality
technologies.
Virtual Reality technology is currently used in a broad range of applications. The best
known are games, movies, simulations, therapy. From a manufacturing standpoint,
there are some attractive applications including training, education, collaborative
work and learning.
This book provides an up-to-date discussion of the current research in Virtual Reality
and its applications. It describes the current Virtual Reality state-of-the-art and points
out the many areas where there is still work to be done. We have chosen certain areas
to cover in this book, which we believe will have potential significant impact on
Virtual Reality and its applications.
The main features of the book can be summarised as follows:
1. The book describes and evaluates the current state-of-the-art in the field of Virtual
Reality.
2. It also presents several applications of Virtual Reality in the fields of learning
environments, simulations, industrial application, data mining and ergonomic
design.
3. Contributors to the book are the leading researchers from Academia and
practitioners from the industry.
This book provides a definitive resource for wide variety of people including
academicians, designers, developers, educators, engineers, practitioners, researchers,
and graduate students.
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We would like to thank the authors for their contributions. Without their expertise and
effort, this book would never be born. InTech staff also deserves our sincere
recognition for their support throughout the project.
Finally the editor would like to thank her husband Ferenc Sik, her sons András Sik and
Gergely Sik for their patience and Professor Janos Schanda, the head of the editor’s
Laboratory for giving her the freedom of research.
Dr. Cecília Sík Lányi
Associate professor at the University of Pannonia,
Veszprem,
Hungary
