Getting really close now
Well a working copy of my work has been posted at http://sunfish.cs.vt.edu/VTQuestV/index.jsp
If you would like to check it out, download and install the SALT plugin for voice interaction and poke around. Let me know how it works for you and if you find any errors besides it not understanding you let me know. IE 6 or higher along with a microphone and speakers are required and the plugin is 63mb so be ready. Thanks for helping out.
If you would like to check it out, download and install the SALT plugin for voice interaction and poke around. Let me know how it works for you and if you find any errors besides it not understanding you let me know. IE 6 or higher along with a microphone and speakers are required and the plugin is 63mb so be ready. Thanks for helping out.
posted by Tom at
3/16/2005 11:58:00 AM
5 Comments:
Hey Tom,
Is there any chance that this will be actually used for the campus? I have used this quite a few times because the online campus maps are horrid. Although I really like it, I wish it worked in Firefox, and I haven't tried using the SALT plugin yet.
Wes (www.wesbaker.com)
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Anonymous, at 5/06/2005 3:25 PM
Unfortunately the VTQuest system utilizes dynamic JavaScript manipulation of the SVG images which is only current supported by the Adobe SVG Viewer to my knowledge. This is only made for IE so that's what it has been built around and for unfortunately. I hope that with the built in ability of SVG which Firefox is developing that they also support JavaScript manipulation but from what I checked out from their latest build a month ago it did not. I am not an SVG expert so if the manipulation can be done on the server side I am unaware of the capability. If you or anyone knows of a work around, I'd be open to trying it out.
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Tom, at 5/07/2005 3:45 AM
I think you did an awesome job on your project Tom! I agree w/ Wes that the current paper maps of the campus aren't always easy to read. If I was a freshman I'd use VT Quest everyday until I was comfortable with getting around YTech. You should get Admissions to include the link to your voice-based interface in the catolog for new students! :) Proud of you.
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Anonymous, at 5/22/2005 10:18 AM
Hmm, I have done absolutely nothing with SVG viewers (But I do have some experience with JSP/XML web based design), but I'm sure its much more complex to do all the image processing on the servers side.
But I guess a way to do it is with keeping track of which images the client is viewing, and have a wrapper class for an image (part of the map) and load it dynamically (keeping track of the image as a private member in the wrapper). This would require use of a session bean, I'd look into J2EE, its somewhat bloated, but should make it easier. If you still use Eclipse, would have probably heard of MyEclipse plugin for J2EE. However, I'm not sure what to do with images are not being viewed.
Hope this gives some ideas. You were an awesome TA.
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Anonymous, at 10/07/2005 2:34 PM
Hey Aaron, thanks for the suggestion. I am no longer maintaining the software so it is a bit late though :) I was already using everything you suggested, however the campus is one huge SVG file, not seperate files and the javascript was used to reposition which part of the campus you were looking at. I have a few ideas on how it may be possible now but I have already moved onto new projects so unfortunately unless one of you want to update this it will be staying the way it is. If you are interested in working on it for a independent study, talk with Dr. Balci about it and I'm sure he would be interested in having someone to maintain it :)
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Tom, at 11/05/2005 11:39 PM
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