Presentation 2008-03-22
Dynamic 3D Magnifying Lenses for Manipulation and Navigation in an Immersive Virtual Environment
Anuraag AGRAWAL, Kiyoshi KIYOKAWA, Haruo TAKEMURA,
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Abstract(in English) Immersive virtual environments present users with a rich experience that can be used for a number of applications. However, the transition from the desktop metaphor to the virtual one results in a paradigm shift for the user. What was once trivial thanks to the multitude of keys on the keyboard or the pseudo-analog freedom of a mouse wheel now becomes an effort of moving complicated, high degree of freedom input devices and motion trackers. To assuage this problem, it is important to develop interfaces for an immersive environment that can become as intuitive to use as the window-based interfaces of desktops. In this paper, we present one such interface that focuses on locating and manipulating remote objects. The interface automatically determines when a user is focusing on a distant object and distorts the environment to bring this object into the range of the user, who can then manipulate it as if he was standing next to it. To determine its effectiveness, this interface was evaluated against three other well known interaction techniques - direct manipulation, Go-Go hand, and HOMER. Testing showed that the lens interface was superior in accuracy to the others, but it took more time to complete a given task.
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Keyword(in English) Immersive Environments / Interaction Techniques / Object Manipulation / Magnifying Lenses
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Conference Date 2008/3/15(1days)
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Title (in English) Dynamic 3D Magnifying Lenses for Manipulation and Navigation in an Immersive Virtual Environment
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Keyword(1) Immersive Environments
Keyword(2) Interaction Techniques
Keyword(3) Object Manipulation
Keyword(4) Magnifying Lenses
1st Author's Name Anuraag AGRAWAL
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University()
2nd Author's Name Kiyoshi KIYOKAWA
2nd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University
3rd Author's Name Haruo TAKEMURA
3rd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University:Cybermedia Center, Osaka University
Date 2008-03-22
Paper # MVE2007-87
Volume (vol) vol.107
Number (no) 554
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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