Period when you used the grant: 2010/07/05 - 2010/07/11
Research activities: Overview and implications: Purpose: Present my research paper in Digital Humanities 2010 (30-minutes Oral Presentation). Conference Organization: King’s College London Destination: Strand London WC2R 2LS United Kingdom Achievement: Bursary Award for young researchers
Progress and effects in your overall research plan and objectives: The presentation aims at visualization and analysis of visitor behaviors in 3D virtual museums. Without loss of generality, I focused on a museum in Second life, named Ritsumeikan Digital Archive Pavilion (RDAP). The museum was used in this paper for developing a prototype of our visualization and analysis tool. Efficient visualization of the user movement is very useful for anylyzing his/her behaviors, in an implicit manner, in order to extract the disclosed information of individuals in the cyberspace. This presentation aims at classification system of visitor behaviors in 3D virtual museums. Without loss of generality, I focused on a museum in Second Life, named Ritsumeikan Digital Archive Pavilion (RDAP). First, we analyze visitors’ behaviors related to a visit time and an observation distance. Then, the proposed synthesis procedure is developed and used in the off-line training stage of ANFIS. The training and testing data are the average and variance of a set of visitors’ attention data computing by the proposed function of the visit time and observation distance variables. Therefore, the trained ANFIS can identify the behavior style of an on-line visitor using the training set of synthetic data and its memberships can describe degrees of uncertainty in behavior styles.
Advisor: Ruck Thawonmas ／ Ritsumeikan University