Images from CAVE-ETD, a VR environment to explore the ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertations) Collection.

 


Image of CAVE-ETD, a VR environment in which subjects in a 10x10x10' CAVE explore Virginia Tech ETD collection (as viewed from the simulator). View from the main foyer. Each door represents a college. The red wand represents the user's hand. White lines represent the CAVE walls. Prepared by Fernando Das Neves, Hussein Suleman and Kevin Curry.

 


Another view from the foyer of CAVE-ETD. Prepared by Fernando Das Neves, Hussein Suleman and Kevin Curry.

 


One of the rooms in CAVE-ETD, showing the thesis and dissertations as books in shelves. Consecutive books of the same color belong to the same topic. Books in orange represent different matches for a query and the relevance of the content with respect to the query. Prepared by Fernando Das Neves, Hussein Suleman and Kevin Curry.

 


The user selects a book to browse in CAVE-ETD (selected book is show in red). Prepared by Fernando Das Neves, Hussein Suleman and Kevin Curry.

 


The abstract from the the selected book is shown as a card floating in front of the user. Prepared by Fernando Das Neves, Hussein Suleman and Kevin Curry.