A Tangible Volume for Portable 3D Interaction

We survey the state of the art of spatial interfaces for 3D visualization. Interaction techniques are crucial to data visualization processes and the visualization research community has been calling for more research on interaction for years. Yet, research papers focusing on interaction techniques, in particular for 3D visualization purposes, are not always published in visualization venues, sometimes making it challenging to synthesize the latest interaction and visualization results. We therefore introduce a taxonomy of interaction technique for 3D visualization. The taxonomy is organized along two axes: the primary source of input on the one hand and the visualization task they support on the other hand. Surveying the state of the art allows us to highlight specific challenges and missed opportunities for research in 3D visualization. In particular, we call for additional research in: (1) controlling 3D visualization widgets to help scientists better understand their data, (2) 3D interaction techniques for dissemination, which are under‐explored yet show great promise for helping museum and science centers in their mission to share recent knowledge, and (3) developing new measures that move beyond traditional time and errors metrics for evaluating visualizations that include spatial interaction.

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“…A wide variety of techniques have been proposed (e.g. [Han97, HCC07, LGK*13, IBIA16, LKM*17]) and most have also already been surveyed [JH13].…”

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The State of the Art of Spatial Interfaces for 3D Visualization

Besançon

Ynnerman²,

Keefe

et al. 2021

Computer Graphics Forum

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“…However, both studies were limited to spatial exploration and object selection. More recently, Issartel et al used video see-through AR on a tablet to simulate an HPCD [20]. They used this approach because of the complexity to implement a "fully portable and self-contained" display.…”

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“…As the research on HPCDs is quite recent, much of the efforts have been directed towards improving their implementation and towards the fundamental building blocks of 3D interaction: object selection and manipulation [20]. These efforts have pushed HCPDs to become credible options to implement realistic self-contained applications such as 3D modeling or training simulations.…”

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GyroSuite

Thibault

Troccaz

Rochet-Capellan

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Handheld Perspective-Corrected Displays (HPCDs) are physical objects that have a notable volume and that display a virtual 3D scene on their entire surface. Being handheld, they create the illusion of holding the scene in a physical container (the display). This has strong benefits for the intuitiveness of 3D interaction: manipulating objects of the virtual scene amounts to physical manipulations of the display. HPCDs have been limited so far to technical demonstrators and experimental tools to assess their merits. However, they show great potential as interactive systems for actual 3D applications. This requires that novel interactions be created to go beyond object manipulation and to offer general-purpose services such as menu command selection and continuous parameter control.Working with a two-handed spherical HPCD, we report on the design and informal evaluations of various interaction techniques for distant object selection, scene scaling, menu interaction and continuous parameter control. In particular, our design leverages the efficient two-handed control of the rotations of the display. We demonstrate how some of these techniques can be assemble in a self-contained anatomy learning application. Novice participants used the application in a qualitative user experiment. Most participants used the application effortlessly without any training or explanations.

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“…Other non-touch-enabled devices also make use of pressure as a primary input. For instance, Issartel et al [29] use pressure input to realize a grasping metaphor on a tangible volume. In their case, pressure controls a state representing whether the user is trying to grasp-for pressure larger than a given threshold-or release a virtual object.…”

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Pressure-Based Gain Factor Control for Mobile 3D Interaction using Locally-Coupled Devices

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Ammi

Isenberg

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We present the design and evaluation of pressure-based interactive control of 3D navigation precision. Specifically, we examine the control of gain factors in tangible 3D interactions using locally-coupled mobile devices. By focusing on pressure as a separate input channel we can adjust gain factors independently from other input modalities used in 3D navigation, in particular for the exploration of 3D visualizations. We present two experiments. First, we determined that people strongly preferred higher pressures to be mapped to higher gain factors. Using this mapping, we compared pressure with rate control, velocity control, and slider-based control in a second study. Our results show that pressure-based gain control allows people to be more precise in the same amount of time compared to established input modalities. Pressure-based control was also clearly preferred by our participants. In summary, we demonstrate that pressure facilitates effective and efficient precision control for mobile 3D navigation.

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A Tangible Volume for Portable 3D Interaction

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The State of the Art of Spatial Interfaces for 3D Visualization

The State of the Art of Spatial Interfaces for 3D Visualization

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Pressure-Based Gain Factor Control for Mobile 3D Interaction using Locally-Coupled Devices

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