April 2001

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1. Shape for Interactions

• Human-Computer Interactions (HCI) will involve more and more Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality (AR) through multimodal interfaces (3D dynamic vision, 3D sound, vocal recognition, ...)
   
• Electronic publishing is in its infancy. Most of the products at this time are electronic duplications of paper books. Think of « 3D Yellow Pages ».
   
• Computer Based Training (CBT), for police, rescue and military forces, for maintenance teams working in hazardous environments (e.g. nuclear stations), etc., requires to feed the simulators with realistic, faithful and up-to-date 3D DB integrating explicit models of the exteriors and interiors of buildings or infrastructures where actions shall eventually take place.
   
• Tele-presence activities, like the navigation and control of robots and tele-manipulators in adverse conditions, hazardous sites, for tele-surgery.

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