Knowledge Base Project - Toni Emerson

Email: temerson(at)hitl.washington.edu / Phone: 616-1423

The Knowledge Base (KB) Project has a number of functions within the HIT Lab:

* maintains WWW site

* tracks publications

* develops information resources, such as bibliographies

* assists students and staff in identifying and locating relevant information

* customized research on a project-by-project basis

HITL Catalog:

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/kb/catalog

To find books/periodicals/technical reports/conference papers/theses and dissertations that the HITL Library owns, use this database. The HITL catalog is updated weekly.

On the Net:

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/kb/onthenet.html

Reference WWW pages developed by KB Project -- meta links to VR research centers, application pages, and excellent VR commercial directory, updated _daily_

Knowledge Base Project:

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/kb

Comprehensive bibliography updated weekly, searchable online; technical reports targeting application areas /

Sci.virtual-worlds:

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw

USENET newsgroup moderated by KB Project, current information on research, technology and commercial resources great FAQs

Online Publications to download and read:

NCSA's Science for the Millenium - Expo Theater/Virtual Environments

Introducing Virtual Environments

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/VETopLevels/VR.Overview.html

The Encyclopedia of Virtual Environments:

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/EVE/

Hand, Chris. Virtual Environment Bibliography

http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~cph/VRbib.html

Isdale, J. (1998, September) What is VR?

http://www.isx.com/~jisdale/WhatIsVR.html

CyberEdge Information Services. The Virtual Lexicon: a Glossary of VR Terms.

http://www.cyberedge.com/4a1.html

Ellis, S. What are Virtual Environments? IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications.

http://duchamp.arc.nasa.gov/papers/virtual/virtual17.html

Ellis, S. (1996). Virtual Environments and Environmental Instruments, In Simulated and Virtual Realities, Taylor & Francis: 1996.

http://duchamp.arc.nasa.gov/papers/veei/veei.html

Manetta, C. and Blade, R. (1995). Glossary of VR Terminology. The International Journal of Virtual Reality, 1(2), 35-39.

http://www.ijvr.com/ijvr/glossary/glossary.htm

Stanney, Mourant and Kennedy. (1998). Human Factors Issues in Virtual Environments: A Review of the Literature. Presence, 7(4), 327-351. Available online in PDF format:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/journals/PRES/ps00744.pdf

Youngblut, C. et. al (1996). Review of Virtual Environment Interface Technology. IDA Paper P-3186, produced by Institute for Defense Analyses.

http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/IDA/