A toolset for navigation in virtual environments

Darken, Rudolph P.; Sibert, John L.

doi:10.1145/168642.168658

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“…Bowman et al, 2001); breadcrumbs (e.g. Darken and Silbert, 1993); muddy footprints (e.g. Marcus, 1993) among dozens of other have been employed to communicate the designers' intent to the systems' users.…”

Section: Intuitiveness and Familiaritymentioning

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Towards an account of intuitiveness

Turner

2008

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Intuitive systems are usable systems. Design guidelines advocate intuitiveness and vendors claim itbut what does it mean for a user interface, interactive system or device to be intuitive? A review of the use of the term "intuitive" indicates that it has two distinct but overlapping meanings, namely intuitiveness based on familiarity and intuitiveness reflecting our embodiment (and frequently both). While everyday usage indicates that familiarity means either a passing acquaintance or an intimacy with something or someone, it will be concluded that familiarity might best be equated with "knowhow" which in turn is based on a deep, often tacit, understanding. The intuitive nature of tangible user interfaces will in turn be attributed to embodiment rather than tangibility per se. Merleau-Ponty writes that it is through our bodies that we "prehend" the world. A number of disciplines now regard actionperception as so closely coupled that they are better considered as a dyad rather than separately. A modified treatment of action-perception coupling is proposed, with familiarity providing an epistemic core, as the basis of intuitiveness.

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Section: Intuitiveness and Familiaritymentioning

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Towards an account of intuitiveness

Turner

2008

Behaviour & Information Technology

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“…A number of navigational methods have been proposed to help orientation and comprehension in a virtual environment (Darken & Silbert, 1993). In addition, navigational metaphors have been proposed to aide a user's direction-finding in a 3D…”

Section: Navigation Toolsmentioning

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Multilayer hybrid visualizations to support 3D GIS

Brooks

Whalley

2008

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

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In this paper we present a unique hybrid visualization system for spatial data. Although some existing 3D GIS systems offer 2D views they are typically isolated from the 3D view in that they are presented in a separate window. Our system is a novel hybrid 2D/3D approach that seamlessly integrates 2D and 3D views of the same data. In our interface, multiple layers of information are continuously transformed between the 2D and 3D modes under the control of the user, directly over a base-terrain. In this way, our prototype system is able to depict 2D and 3D views within the same window. This has advantages, since 2D and 3D visualizations can each be easier to interpret in different contexts.In this work we develop this concept of a hybrid visualization by presenting a comprehensive set of capabilities within our distinctive system. These include new facilities such as: hybrid landmark, 3D point, and chart layers, the grouping of multiple hybrid layers, layer painting, the merging of layer controls and consistent zooming functionality.

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“…VE trails have presented user's raw movements in the form of virtual footprints, vapor trails, balls of string or breadcrumbs (Darken & Sibert, 1993;Grammenos, Filou, Papadakos, & Stephanidis, 2002;Pettifer, Cook, & Marsh, 2004;Ruddle, 2005). In most cases the trail data has been recorded automatically, rather than expecting a user to specify each waypoint, and this echoes findings from research into information spaces which showed that expecting users to manually identify each item that formed part of a trail was a major limitation of an otherwise successful system (De Roure et al, 2001).…”

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Generating Trails Automatically, to Aid Navigation When You Revisit an Environment

Ruddle

2008

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

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A new method for generating trails from a person's movement through a virtual environment (VE) is described. The method is entirely automatic (no user input is needed), and uses string-matching to identify similar sequences of movement and derive the person's primary trail. The method was evaluated in a virtual building, and generated trails that substantially reduced the distance participants traveled when they searched for target objects in the building 5–8 weeks after a set of familiarization sessions. Only a modest amount of data (typically five traversals of the building) was required to generate trails that were both effective and stable, and the method was not affected by the order in which objects were visited. The trail generation method models an environment as a graph and, therefore, may be applied to aiding navigation in the real world and information spaces, as well as VEs.

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A toolset for navigation in virtual environments

Cited by 194 publications

References 8 publications

Towards an account of intuitiveness

Towards an account of intuitiveness

Multilayer hybrid visualizations to support 3D GIS

Generating Trails Automatically, to Aid Navigation When You Revisit an Environment

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