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Interactions, visualisation and virtual reality

Date de première publication : Tuesday 29 July 2008 par Sophie Pales

Interaction between humans and machines is one of the areas in computer science that has evolved a lot these last years. Progresses and innovations are mainly due to increases in computer power and technology of interaction devices and interactive software. It is also the result of new ways of considering the interaction with computers and the role of computers in everyday life.

Communication appears as a main challenge in digital technologies and usages of digital technologies. Communication through language (speech, texts, and signs) or other highly structured means (music, dance, postures) is studied for enabling new interaction paradigms, new tools for communication, and new instruments for performing arts.


Other fields renewed by technological advances in display systems but also by the increasing power of computer systems and the growing up of massive forms of computation are physical systems modelling and data visualisation. Moreover, visualisation of large amount of data must be combined with new ways of interacting with a machine in virtual reality systems.

 

It is worth to mention that these researches imply the study of the close relationship between human and machines during the interaction, the consequence being the development of researches relating sophisticated software realisations, psychological and psychophysical studies in an interdisciplinary framework. It is indeed increasingly mandatory to understand how humans perceive these technological environments and interact with them but it is also necessary to validate the technological solutions mediating these interactions with end users.

 

Interaction and visualisation

Virtual and augmented reality