[x3d-public] Web3DUX working group minutes 8 April 2020

[Feng Liu]

Web3DUX Group Meeting minutes
Date: April 8, 2020
Attendees: Amela Sadagic, Don Brutzman, Richard F. Puk and Feng Liu
Regrets: Nicholas Polys; 

Items discussed:
1. COVID-19 and Current Web3D / X3D contributions discussion:
- Everyone attended the meeting are doing well.
- NIH 3D print exchange site – enable X3D view in
a browser: https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx/013429/x3d 
- America made provide a platform publishing 3D design of the fighting COVID-19 supplies: https://www.americamakes.us/    
- Amela’s team is working on optimizing the 3D model with a goal of improving usability. There are many factors (adoption procedure and policy, etc.) involved before a mask/a design got approval
- Feng expressed her interest in inviting her summer students to participate in the effort. 
- Don reminded us to align the working group's long term goals with the current effort of the involvement of fighting COVID-19. To identify Web3D + UX research opportunities with the involvements. 
- Feng is going to looking for COVID-19 research
funding opportunities regarding Web3D and UX areas. 

2. Update the report from the last meeting. No progress on the following items so far
- Due to COVID-19 impact. The following item still needs to be done. 
- Review Publications on Three types of interactions 
-- Create a folder in one drive – share with you all to collect Literature Review Publications on Three types of interactions – Feng (Done)
-- Develop a spreadsheet to categorize the subjects with the papers we review  - Amela.  
-- List an “other” category for other UX related topics 
-- Collecting papers and put them into different categories – Amela and Feng
-- Collect data/currents publications/papers and authors to invite to the group for later