The time has come for me to choose a final year project, and although a couple of the suggested topics look quite interesting I'm considering writing my own criteria.
We've seen the introduction of VRML, Java3D etc pass relatively unnoticed, but now with Longhorn on the horizon and a huge web services push there is more opportunity that ever for apps to take advantage of 3D interfaces for knowledge representation and data visualisation.
Do you think the topic is one that's worth pursuing? I was thinking of tying in a substantial research effort (in the area of HCI, IKM etc) with some app development using XAML or 3D XML interfaces. Aside from the more obvious use of 3D for graphing/realisation, I'm interested in looking at how project management and other business applications can benefit from the extra dimension. I'm just quite apprehensive because it seems like an area that would have received a lot more attention by now, had it actually offered more in the way of practical utility.
The project is worth 30 credits which corresponds to about 300 hours of work. Incidentally the other topics I'm considering are "Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric Sampling" and "Digital Musician - an application to read musical scores, recognise them and produce digital audio relevant to the printed notes".
We've seen the introduction of VRML, Java3D etc pass relatively unnoticed, but now with Longhorn on the horizon and a huge web services push there is more opportunity that ever for apps to take advantage of 3D interfaces for knowledge representation and data visualisation.
Do you think the topic is one that's worth pursuing? I was thinking of tying in a substantial research effort (in the area of HCI, IKM etc) with some app development using XAML or 3D XML interfaces. Aside from the more obvious use of 3D for graphing/realisation, I'm interested in looking at how project management and other business applications can benefit from the extra dimension. I'm just quite apprehensive because it seems like an area that would have received a lot more attention by now, had it actually offered more in the way of practical utility.
The project is worth 30 credits which corresponds to about 300 hours of work. Incidentally the other topics I'm considering are "Texture Synthesis by Non-parametric Sampling" and "Digital Musician - an application to read musical scores, recognise them and produce digital audio relevant to the printed notes".