TITLE:
Virtual Home Library System—— Let every Chinese family having their own libraries
AUTHORS:
Bin WU, Shu SONG, Jianxiang CAO, Wen RU
KEYWORDS:
virtual home library, IPTV, virtual reality, digital library
JOURNAL NAME:
Intelligent Information Management,
Vol.1 No.1,
July
31,
2009
ABSTRACT: Virtual Home Library (VHL) is an integrated IT system that utilizes virtual reality technology and an IPTV set-top box (STB) to virtually construct a ‘library’ and the relevant reading environment on televisions in people’s home. Unlike the online e-book reading applications, Virtual Home Library can be applied on televisions – the world’s most convenient and most efficient communication tool. Providing extended digital library services, it will be a perfect group reading utility for family readers. The system has been investigated by a joint research team formed by the National Library of China and the Communication University of China, collaborating with a Chinese IPTV equipment manufacturer. This paper presents some preliminary investigations of the VHL system performed by the research team.