Finding interactive 3D objects by their interaction properties

Abstract

The problem of metadata for interactive 3D objects has appeared very recently. It is significant due to the growing demand for interactive applications of 3D technologies. Time required to prepare such applications depends strongly on availability of reusable interactive 3D objects. Easy access to such objects can be increased by search solutions that cover not only object geometry and semantics but also object interactions. However, existing metadata standards provide tools only for general, technical and semantic descriptions of objects. The missing elements of object description solution are metadata of object interactions and an optimized query language. In our previous research we have developed an extensible solution for describing interactions of 3D objects. In this paper, we present the second missing element, a specification of a special query language that enables efficient usage of the interaction metadata. © 2012 The Author(s).