Usability Comparison of Mouse-Based Interaction Techniques for Predictable 3d Rotation

Bade, Ragnar; Ritter, Felix; Preim, Bernhard

doi:10.1007/11536482_12

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“…The horizontal pen movement is mapped to a rotation about the up-vector, whereas a vertical pen movement is mapped to a rotation about the vector perpendicular to view and up. As Bade et al suggested [2], Two-Axis Valuator Trackball is among "the best 3D rotation technique" among several rotational widgets.…”

Section: Gesture Modesmentioning

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Paper and Pen: A 3D Sketching System

Yıldız

Çapın

2012

Computer and Information Sciences III

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This paper proposes a method that resembles a natural pen and paper interface to create curve based 3D sketches. The system is particularly useful for representing initial 3D design ideas without much effort. Users interact with the system by the help of a pressure sensitive pen tablet. The input strokes of the users are projected onto a drawing plane, which serves as a paper that they can place anywhere in the 3D scene. The resulting 3D sketch is visualized emphasizing depth perception. Our evaluation involving several naive users suggest that the system is suitable for a broad range of users to easily express their ideas in 3D. We further analyze the system with the help of an architect to demonstrate the expressive capabilities.

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Section: Gesture Modesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Paper and Pen: A 3D Sketching System

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Çapın

2012

Computer and Information Sciences III

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“…From their experience Bade et al (Bade et al, 2005) have promulgated a number of four general principles as crucial for predictable and pleasing rotation techniques: 1. Similar actions should provoke similar reactions: the same mouse movement should not result in varying rotations.…”

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“…This class of techniques comprise the techniques known as the Virtual sphere of Chen (Chen et al, 1988), the Arcball of Shoemake (Shoemake, 1992), the Bell's virtual trackball (Henriksen et al, 2004), the two-axis valuator (Chen et al, 1988) and the two-axis valuator with fixed upvector (Bade et al, 2005). These techniques essentially differ in their plane-to-sphere projection.…”

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“…Not much experimental comparisons and evaluations of these techniques have been proposed in the literature. Bade et al (Bade et al, 2005) have presented a tabular comparison of these techniques (excluding Chen's Virtual Sphere) with respect to the first four principles reported in the preceding section 4.1. We propose hereafter an extended comparison For Chen's Virtual sphere we set principle 4 as satisfied since the ratio between the sphere radius and the radius of the mouse's workspace on the table can be tuned which will affect the compromise velocity/precision.…”

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Design of a Bio-Inspired 3D Orientation Coordinate System and Application in Robotised Tele-Sonography

Courrèges¹

2011

Robot Arms

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“…Although navigation is essential in order to get a deeper understanding of the visualized data sets and the need for navigation metaphors has been expressed [8], only little research has been dedicated to support this process within volume visualizations. In fact, in most general-purpose volume visualization systems the trackball metaphor is exploited [25], since it is easy to use and allows predictable navigation [1]. However, the trackball metaphor has several drawbacks.…”

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Context-aware volume navigation

Diepenbrock

Ropinski

Hinrichs

2011

2011 IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium

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Figure 1: Three subsequent screenshots as made during the usage of our image-based volume navigation metaphor. Without changing the navigation mode, the user is able to inspect the data set in a behavior similar to a trackball and can also fly through internal structures when a collision detection is present. To support the spatial-awareness, appropriate thumbnails are displayed. ABSTRACTThe trackball metaphor is exploited in many applications where volumetric data needs to be explored. Although it provides an intuitive way to inspect the overall structure of objects of interest, an in-detail inspection can be tedious -or when cavities occur even impossible. Therefore we propose a context-aware navigation technique for the exploration of volumetric data. While navigation techniques for polygonal data require information about the rendered geometry, this strategy is not sufficient in the area of volume rendering. Since rendering parameters, e.g., the transfer function, have a strong influence on the visualized structures, they also affect the features to be explored. To compensate for this effect we propose a novel image-based navigation approach for volumetric data. While being intuitive to use, the proposed technique allows the user to perform complex navigation tasks, in particular to get an overview as well as to perform an in-detail inspection without any navigation mode switches. The technique can be easily integrated into raycasting based volume renderers, needs no extra data structures and is independent of the data set as well as the rendering parameters. We will discuss the underlying concepts, explain how to enable the navigation at interactive frame rates using OpenCL, and evaluate its usability as well as its performance.

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Usability Comparison of Mouse-Based Interaction Techniques for Predictable 3d Rotation

Cited by 55 publications

References 6 publications

Paper and Pen: A 3D Sketching System

Paper and Pen: A 3D Sketching System

Design of a Bio-Inspired 3D Orientation Coordinate System and Application in Robotised Tele-Sonography

Context-aware volume navigation

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