Creating 3D Museums on the Web
Jacek Jankowski, Marek Jozwowicz, Izabela Irzynska, Bill McDaniel and Stefan Decker
During the mini-workshop, we describe a simple to use authoring application, which may help museums to create virtual exhibitions in a quick and intuitive way. We introduce 3dWiki, a 3D wiki engine.
We describe step by step how to create a virtual exhibition using 3dWiki: from creating models representing the artifacts, through authoring the textual content, creating the links, to publishing the result on-line.
In Proceedings of Museums and the Web 2010: The International Conference for Culture
and Heritage On-Line (MW'10), Denver, Colorado, USA, 2010.
The 2LIP Model and its Implementations
Jacek Jankowski and Stefan Decker
In this article we present a model for 2-Layer Interface Paradigm (2LIP). 2LIP is
an approach for designing simple yet interactive 3D web applications, an attempt
to marry advantages of 3D experience with the advantages of the narrative structure
of hypertext. The hypertext information, together with graphics, and multimedia,
is presented semi-transparently on the foreground layer. It overlays the 3D representation
of the information displayed in the background of the interface. We describe implementations
of the 2LIP model: 2LIPGarden (HTML context) and Copernicus (wiki context). We want
to show that our model can be easily employed to the existing web infrastructure.
In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT'09), Torino,
Italy, 2009.
3DWiki: The 3D Wiki Engine
Jacek Jankowski, Marek Jozwowicz, Yolanda Cobos, Bill McDaniel and Stefan Decker
We demonstrate one of the potential paths of the evolution of wiki engines towards
Web 3.0. We introduce 3dWiki - the 3D wiki engine, which was built according to
2-Layer Interface Paradigm (2LIP). It was developed for use by Copernicus, our vision
of a 3D encyclopedia. In the demonstration: (1) We give an overview of 2-Layer Interface
Paradigm, an attempt to marry advantages of 3D experience with the advantages of
narrative structure of hypertext. (2) We describe step by step how to create
an article for Copernicus: from creating models for the 3D background, through authoring
the content, creating the c-links, to publishing the result in our encyclopedia.
(3) We show how to use a physics engine in our wiki.
In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym'09), Orlando, Florida, 2009.
2LIP: The Step Towards The Web3D
Jacek Jankowski and Sebastian Ryszard Kruk
The World Wide Web allows users to create and publish a variety of resources, including
multimedia ones. Most of the contemporary best practices for designing web interfaces,
however, do not take into account the 3D techniques.
In this paper we present a novel approach for designing interactive web applications
– 2-Layer Interface Paradigm (2LIP). The background layer of the 2LIP-type user
interface is a 3D scene, which a user cannot directly interact with. The foreground
layer is HTML content. Only taking an action on this content (e.g. pressing a hyperlink,
scrolling a page) can affect the 3D scene.
We introduce a reference implementation of 2LIP: Copernicus – The Virtual 3D Encyclopedia,
which shows one of the potential paths of the evolution of Wikipedia towards Web
3.0. Based on the evaluation of Copernicus we prove that designing web interfaces
according to 2LIP provides users a better browsing experience, without harming the
interaction.
In Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'08), Beijing,
China, 2008.
Copernicus - 3D Wikipedia
Jacek Jankowski
In this paper we present one of the potential paths of the evolution of Wikipedia
towards Web 3.0. We introduce Copernicus - The Virtual 3D Encyclopedia, which was
built according to 2-Layer Interface Paradigm (2LIP). The background layer of the
2LIP-type user interface is a 3D scene, which a user cannot directly interact with.
The foreground layer is HTML content. Only taking an action on this content (e.g.
pressing a hyperlink) can affect the 3D scene.
In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive
Techniques (SIGGRAPH'08), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2008.
* This poster was also presented at the 4th International Wikimedia Conference (Wikimania'08), Alexandria, Egypt, 2008 - see Copernicus – Adding the Third Dimension to Wikipedia..
Didaskon – Semantic eLearning Framework
Jacek Jankowski, Adam Westerski and Sebastian Ryszard Kruk
The amount of information is growing dramatically fast nowadays. It is a very difficult
time for teachers to keep up with changes; this problem also affects eLearning.
Without constant maintenance, electronic courses are also getting outdated. Moreover,
all of the current solutions seem to underestimate the potential of Web 2.0 idea.
The contemporary eLearning systems deliver predefined, rigid courses which usually
do not take into account that users are different from each other. We would like
to present Didaskon, a framework for automated composition of a learning path for
a student. The selection and workflow scheduling of learning objects is based mainly
on their description and semantically annotated specification of user profile. Didaskon
also derives information aggregated by IKHarvester (informal knowledge harvester)
from various Social Semantic Information Sources, i.e., wikis, blogs, fora, and
other informal source.
In Proceedings of the Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech'08), San Jose, CA,
USA, 2008.