3D User Interfaces Using Tracked Multi-touch Mobile Devices

Wilkes, Curtis B.; Tilden, Dan; Bowman, Doug A.

3D User Interfaces Using Tracked Multi-touch Mobile Devices

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065-072.pdf (2.47 MB)

Date

2012

Authors

Wilkes, Curtis B.
Tilden, Dan
Bowman, Doug A.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Multi-touch mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous due to the proliferation of smart phone platforms such as the iPhone and Android. Recent research has explored the use of multi-touch input for 3D user interfaces on displays including large touch screens, tablets, and mobile devices. This research explores the benefits of adding six-degree-of-freedom tracking to a multi-touch mobile device for 3D interaction. We analyze and propose benefits of using tracked multi-touch mobile devices (TMMDs) with the goal of developing effective interaction techniques to handle a variety of tasks within immersive 3D user interfaces. We developed several techniques using TMMDs for virtual object manipulation, and compared our techniques to existing best-practice techniques in a series of user studies. We did not, however, find performance advantages for TMMD-based techniques. We discuss our observations and propose alternate interaction techniques and tasks that may benefit from TMMDs.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGVE/JVRC12/065-072
,
booktitle = {Joint Virtual Reality Conference of ICAT - EGVE - EuroVR
},
editor = {Ronan Boulic and Carolina Cruz-Neira and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa and David Roberts
},
title = {{3D User Interfaces Using Tracked Multi-touch Mobile Devices
}},
author = {Wilkes, Curtis B. and 
Tilden, Dan and 
Bowman, Doug A.
},
year = {2012
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-40-8
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGVE/JVRC12/065-072
}
}