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<b>Web3DUX Group Meeting Minutes</b></p>
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<b>April 22, 2020</b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Attendees: Nicholas Polys, Don Brutzman, and Feng Liu<br>
Regrets: Amela Sadagic, Richard F. Puk</span></p>
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<li><span style="line-height:107%">COVID-19 and Current Web3D / X3D contributions discussion:</span></li><ul style="margin-bottom:0in">
<li><span style="line-height:107%">Everyone attended the meeting are doing well.</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">NIH 3D print exchange site – enable X3D view in a browser:
</span><a href="https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx/013429/x3d"><span style="line-height:107%">https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx/013429/x3d</span></a><span style="line-height:107%">
</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">Nicholas: VT is collaborating with manufacturers for producing ventilator parts/masks. The 3D exchange(3dprint.nih.gov/) helps a lot.<span style="">
</span>X3d models are displaying on the browsers. </span></li><ul style="margin-bottom:0in">
<li><span style="line-height:107%">***Wonder if there is any UX study we can do. – definitely!
</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">Challenges: Can we identify the users and follow up the users with their user experiences such as manipulation /mode features and functions? – Nicholas will find out Megan at NIH to see any data we can collect/use.
</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">We need to Identify the factors we can use to measure success.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:#201F1E">the VT News story about our local effort (good models go the NIH print exchange)</span></li><li><span style="color:black"><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvtnews.vt.edu%2Farticles%2F2020%2F04%2Fvirginia-tech-engineer-and-carilion-physician-upgrade-breathing-.html&data=02%7C01%7CLIU_F%40mercer.edu%7C4d72a3711d384118f7f308d7e6fb7938%7C4fb34d2889b247109bcc30824d17fc30%7C0%7C0%7C637231840060923564&sdata=kmeOxgFjYvZjy7k8VBdFIlIbj8rhDtKFKo%2F0Y%2FU7IkY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" title="Original URL: https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2020/04/virginia-tech-engineer-and-carilion-physician-upgrade-breathing-.html. Click or tap if you trust this link."><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2020/04/virginia-tech-engineer-and-carilion-physician-upgrade-breathing-.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:#201F1E"> </span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:#201F1E"> </span></li><li><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; color:#201F1E">Here is VT's listing of funding opportunities related to the pandemic
</span></li><li><span style="color:black"><a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.research.vt.edu%2Fcovid-19-updates-impacts%2Fopportunities.html&data=02%7C01%7CLIU_F%40mercer.edu%7C4d72a3711d384118f7f308d7e6fb7938%7C4fb34d2889b247109bcc30824d17fc30%7C0%7C0%7C637231840060933558&sdata=4Mf9AsCtMC0PJP1Do8ANmZgQ5XD7O%2BBO545dy16DgDA%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" title="Original URL: https://www.research.vt.edu/covid-19-updates-impacts/opportunities.html. Click or tap if you trust this link."><span style="font-size:11.5pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">https://www.research.vt.edu/covid-19-updates-impacts/opportunities.html</span></a></span><br>
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<li><span style="line-height:107%">Don: Two modes are available but not many people use it. How can we let users know how to use the x3d better?<span style="">
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<li><span style="line-height:107%">X3D Architecture: Annex G Recommended navigation behaviours https://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/behaviours.html</span><span lang="ZH-CN" style="line-height:107%; font-family:"MS Gothic"">
</span><span style="line-height:107%">This
is very simple and might be improved in several ways.<span style=""> </span>Suggestion: we list common problems and then add recommendations to Annex G for X3D4.</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">Nicholas' example about navigation hotkeys is an excellent case in point.<span style="">
</span>For example, consistent availability for pressing alt-W for Walk, alt-E for Examine would be great.</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">This past weekend, SPIDERS3D program manager Alex Viana and an end user and I were able to create and release a walkthrough video.<br>
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* SPIDERS3D Program Overview and Collaboration Walkthrough</span> <a href="https://gitlab.nps.edu/Savage/Spiders3dPublic/-/blob/master/videos/demonstrations/NRWG2020/README.md">
<span style="line-height:107%">https://gitlab.nps.edu/Savage/Spiders3dPublic/-/blob/master/videos/demonstrations/NRWG2020/README.md</span></a><span style="line-height:107%">
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This is mostly "inside the Navy" but wanted to let each of you know that, when talking to potential sponsors, we continue advocating that X3D standards and Web3DUX practices are encouraged and supported and adopted.</span><br>
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<span style="line-height:107%"> </span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">Recommends Collecting problems/ user challenges.
</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">Cool stuff: // 3D simulation on social distance : a combination of HTML + web 3D + User Experience
</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/14/science/coronavirus-transmission-cough-6-feet-ar-ul.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/14/science/coronavirus-transmission-cough-6-feet-ar-ul.html</a><br>
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<li><span style="line-height:107%">Feng recommends showing the help/hotkey before the x3d model is loaded in the browsers. So that users can handle how to manipulate the scene/objects.</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">Plan of actions: </span></li><ul style="margin-bottom:0in">
<li><span style="line-height:107%">Record a Zoom meeting about the application/x3D resources? // Maybe not the #1 priorities
</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">Focusing on the fundamental functions/modes within the X3d applications</span></li><ul style="margin-bottom:0in">
<li><span style="line-height:107%">Inventory the user experiences problems</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">Give common problems and common solutions</span></li></ul>
<li><span style="line-height:107%">Nicholas will contact Megan at NIH about access to the user data with the 3D exchange site.</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">Funding might be available to Remote learning classroom with UX - Nicholas</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">NPS: web3D application and user experience videos - Don</span></li><li><span style="line-height:107%">Feng is going to call participations in evaluating user experience on X3D applications within the Web3D community to identify the usability problems within the X3D applications in both the x3d view on NIH 3D printing exchange
site or examples on Web3D site: </span></li><ul style="margin-bottom:0in">
<li><a href="https://3dprint.nih.gov/collections/covid-19-response">https://3dprint.nih.gov/collections/covid-19-response</a></li><li><a href="https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx-013429">https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx-013429</a></li><li><a href="https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#ModelSearch">https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#ModelSearch</a> // Nicholas: Is this the page you were referring to the x3D model collection?</li><li><span style="line-height:107%">A google doc has been created below. Anyone can fill in the UX problems you identified in any X3D applications
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<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D52ZQXcKny3xV7CauaKkFwm5U1OCq8pLrP1suvqMDJQ/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D52ZQXcKny3xV7CauaKkFwm5U1OCq8pLrP1suvqMDJQ/edit?usp=sharing</a><br>
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<li><b><span style="line-height:107%">Some </span>3D applications <b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">
and <b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: 17.12px">funding resources </span></b></b>in responding COVID-19
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A shared google file has been created for you to enter the 3D application you run across or working on in responding to COVID-19 or any funding opportunity you run across available to the X3D community regarding COVID-19.
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UEYnRiusTmTV3hve1lXeuByHIDvY73T1lIMrRvfdLVc/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UEYnRiusTmTV3hve1lXeuByHIDvY73T1lIMrRvfdLVc/edit?usp=sharing</a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Feng recommends to have a special “COVID-19 session” in the Web3D conference and invite all the presenters who contribute to the Web3D /VR/AR applications responding to COVID-19
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