CoRSAIRe / MecaFlu: VR and Multimodality for CFD - VENISE group (www.limsi.fr/venise/)
Channel: V&AR VENISE
Date: 2012-12-18

CoRSAIRe / MecaFlu: VR and Multimodality for CFD - VENISE group (www.limsi.fr/venise/)
The goal of the CoRSAIRe project was to develop new ways of interacting with large or complex digital worlds. The project aimed at significantly enhancing currently existing interfaces by introducing multiple sensori-motor channels, so that the user will be able to see, hear and touch the data itself (or objects derived from the data), thus redefining completely conventional interaction mechanisms. The project addressed two well-defined applications, who manipulate massive and complex dynamic databases on a daily basis, with intricate, non-linear exploration scenarios.  The current video focuses on the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) application of the CoRSAIRe project. 
In this application field, the basic hypothesis of the CoRSAIRe project is that Virtual Reality (VR) and Multimodal interaction can increase the efficiency of the analysis of non-stationary flows in CFD. Specifically, we report on the identification of relevant strategies of CFD exploration coupled to adapted VR data representation and
interaction techniques. Three different contributions will be highlighted. First, we show how placing the CFD expert user at the heart of the system is accomplished through a
formalized analysis of work activity and through system evaluation. Second, auditory outputs providing analysis of time-varying phenomena in a spatialized virtual environment
are introduced and evaluated. Finally, specific haptic feedbacks are designed and evaluated to enhance classical visual data exploration of CFD simulations.

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