Prospects
In future we plan to develop more tools and applications for several practices These include:
- Graphical user interfaces for the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop
- Presentation platform on Touch & Write
- Architectural design platform
- Interactive physics games using both input metaphores
CoVidA - Collaborative Video Annotations
CoVidA is an important tool for handeling video data. It combines the features of the Touch&Write Table of DFKI with the possiblity to work on multiple videos with multiple users.
a.SCatch - Semantic Search for Architectural Floorplans
Architects' daily routine involves working with drawings. They use either a pen or a computer to sketch out their ideas or to do a drawing to scale. We therefore propose the use of a sketch-based approach when using the floor plan repository for queries.
Read more: a.SCatch - Semantic Search for Architectural Floorplans
RoDes - Room Design
Room design is an indispensable phase that precedes any practical implementation phase. However, room design is not a practice limited to architects. Instead, most of the home product retailers and furniture stores provide the customers the option of designing their own products themselves.