The Metaplastic Virtual Spaces

Virtual reality systems need new metaphors for their communication. This paper presents a fuzzy enhanced semantic virtual space model. The application of the model tries to improve its conceptualization and definition of a new virtual world system. The pa

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Theodor G. Wyeld Sarah Kenderdine Michael Docherty (Eds.)

Virtual Systems and Multimedia 13th International Conference, VSMM 2007 Brisbane, Australia, September 23-26, 2007 Revised Selected Papers

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Volume Editors Theodor G. Wyeld Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Life & Social Sciences John Street, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, 3122 E-mail: [email protected] Sarah Kenderdine Melbourne Museum, Special Projects Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3053 E-mail: [email protected] Michael Docherty Queensland University of Technology, Games and Interactive Entertainment Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia, 4059 E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008921920 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.5, H.4, H.3, I.2-4, J.4-5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

The 13th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia was held in Brisbane, Australia in September 2007. This was the first time that VSMM was sited in Australia. The Australian conference theme reflected the country’s cultural heritage, both recent and past – Exchange and