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Title:
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TOWARDS A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN 3D E-TOURISM ENVIRONMENT |
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Author(s):
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Helmut Berger , Michael Dittenbach , Dieter Merkl |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-16-X |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Maggie McPherson and Frank Bannister |
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Year:
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2006 |
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Edition:
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2 |
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Keywords:
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e-Tourism, Game Engines, 3D Virtual Worlds, Multi-Agent Systems, Electronic Institutions |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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168 |
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Last Page:
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172 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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In this paper we describe itchy feet, a 3D e-Tourism environment that provides an integrated, game-like and
community driven e-Business application where each member is impersonated as avatar having the possibility to perform
commercial transactions such as booking a trip or getting advice from human travel agents. Additionally, community
members may travel to destinations that are modeled in distinct areas within the three-dimensional Virtual World. In
particular, we apply 3D Electronic Institutions, a framework developed and employed in the area of multi-agent systems,
to the tourism domain and make use of a game engine for sophisticated 3D visualization. |
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