Direct Manipulation and the Third Dimension
Recent advances in touch and display technologies are supporting a wide-spread use of touch-based direct manipulation techniques as well as 3D displays that give a perspectively correct view. Both techniques have consistency constraints including the following: With direct manipulation, a dragged object should stick to the finger tip. With viewer centered projection, head movement should update the scene’s projection to preserve a sound 3D impression, e.g., leaning around a house should reveal its backyard. Unfortunately, these two contradict each other, making a combination, e.g., moving the head while touching or dragging an object, non-trivial.
We introduce a design space of perspectively adjusted methods for direct manipulation to cope with this limitation, select nine different strategies from it, and evaluate six of them in depth. Participants dragged a box through a 3D maze with multiple, partially occluded levels. We identified one method to be among the fastest while yielding up to 32% less collisions than the other fast methods.
The Team
This is a research project of Max Möllers and Patrick Zimmer from the Media Computing Group.
Publications
- Max Möllers, Patrick Zimmer and Jan Borchers. Direct Manipulation and the Third Dimension: A Design Space for Co-Planar Dragging on 3D Displays. In CHI '12: Extended Abstracts of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,Austin, USA, May 2012.
- Max Möllers, Patrick Zimmer and Jan Borchers. Direct Manipulation and the Third Dimension: Co-Planar Dragging on 3D Displays. In ITS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces, In Proceedings of ITS2012, ITS '12, pages 11–20, ACM, New York, NY, USA, Nov 2012.
