Design and Implementation of the Browser for the Multimedia Multi-User Dungeon of the Digital Museum

摘要

This paper describes a design and implementation of the browser for the Digital Museum multimedia multi-user dungeon (MMMUD). MMMUD browser is a user interface software to the multi-user virtual environment provided by MMMUD. In the large-scale virtual environ- ment with many contents, there are themes such as user interface for accessing the contents and support of user's navigation in the immense virtual environment. We introduce the tool metaphor for the former problem and the video guide for the latter. The tool metaphor is an interface for accessing grouped contents collaboratively. The video guide is an embedded video image of human body in the virtual environment and guide the user with explanation about the virtual environment. This paper examines effectiveness of proposed ideas through implementation of MMMUD browser and shows that MMMUD is available from inexpensive computing environment.