EON FastView ArchiCAD Add-On

Although 3D animations offer a number of benefits, they are time-consuming, thus costly; and require expert knowledge to achieve results required. With the use of EON FastView, the non-animation expert can achieve interactive walkthroughs and design reviews within minutes, saving time and cost and offering a more flexible design tool due to its interactive nature. Once the design alternatives are ready to be reviewed or presented, the 3D content can be shared over the Internet or incorporated in a multimedia presentation using pre-designed templates.

Key Advantages
Interactive walkthroughs
Real-time 3D visualization
High degree of realism
Distribute content quickly and easily on the Internet
Collaboration on the web
Supports interactive configuration
Highly compressed file format compared to animations
Ease of use through intuitive graphical user interface
Seamlessly integrated with ArchiCAD 7.0
Supports user selected html templates for seamless web-integration
Small plug-in (750 KB) for web collaboration
Intuitive navigation and user interface

What is EON FastView TM?
EON FastView is a $495 ArchiCAD Add-On that has been seamlessly integrated into ArchiCAD 7.0. A complete building or a single object can be quickly brought up in the EON FastView real-time viewing environment. Camera views or walkthroughs can be saved for later sharing or modification in real-time. The EON FastView Collaboration enables quick and effective sharing of ArchiCAD models over the Internet. For more information see www.eonreality.com/fastview.

“EON FastView’s ability to handle real time renderings without having to generate large animation files in ArchiCAD saves us time in the visualization process. Higher end interactivity can also be added to the 3D model through the use of EON Studio.” “We were extremely impressed both with EON’s capabilities to seamlessly integrate with ArchiCAD and the ability to be able to fly through and interact in real-time. We believe that the capability to view such models over the Internet will open new possibilities for our firm, both for internal usage and for customer presentations.”

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Incorporating Tutorial Strategies into an Intelligent Assistant

Computer tutors and intelligent software assistants have traditionally been thought of as different kinds of systems. However tutors and assistants share many properties. We have incorporated tutorial strategies into an intelligent assistant based on the COLLAGEN architecture. We are working on an agent, named Triton, which teaches and helps users with the graphical user interface of an air travel planning system. We found that the collaborative model underlying COLLAGEN is an excellent foundation for both an assistant and a tutor, and that both modes of interaction can be implemented in the same system with different parameter settings.

In this paper, we report on our work in progress to incorporate tutorial strategies into an intelligent assistant for an air travel planning application. Our initial findings are (1) that by viewing both tutoring and assisting as collaborative activities, the same set of mechanisms can be used to support both, and (2) that COLLAGEN can be extended and generalized to support both activities. This paper is a case study of how we extended COLLAGEN and used it to build a tutoring/assisting agent called Triton. We will describe some of the differences between tutoring and assisting, and discuss how these differences can be encoded as parameters, in a single system.

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