World-in-Miniature Interaction for Complex Virtual Environments

Trueba, Ramón; Andújar, Carlos; Argelaguet, Ferran

doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-0285-4.ch006

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“…This lines up with the subjective ratings in Q3. The open-ended comments indicate that the handheld WIM has advantages in the flexibility of controlling the assisted view as stated in the previous works [3,33,43]. However, several drawbacks were exposed in the open-ended comments, such as controlling the WIM could raise accidental collision, and the overrich information.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…Pausch et al [33] indicated that WIM is similar to a cube map, which can provide users with a manipulable global view in original 1PP. Andujar et al [3,43] referred that users can observe and select occluded objects in original 1PP by rotating WIM, which solves the problem of relying on navigation to select occluded objects to some extent. Evin et al [14] used a WIM model orbiting around the user to reduce the cybersickness in viewpoint movement, while maintaining the natural interaction.…”

Section: World-in-miniaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The implementation of the WIM refers to [33,43]. In the virtual environment, we created a WIM model which consists of the miniatures of all objects in the real-sized world, including the virtual environments and the avatar.…”

Section: Wim Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Multiple perspectives integration for virtual reality-aided assemblability assessment in narrow assembly spaces

Wang

et al. 2022

Int J Adv Manuf Technol

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Virtual reality (VR) has been proved as a promising tool for industrial design, but the traditional VR interface of first-person perspective (1PP) is not efficient to support assemblability assessment in narrow assembly spaces. In this paper, we proposed the multi-perspectives interface (MPI) which integrates the 1PP and the third-person perspective (3PP) using the handheld world-in-miniature (WIM). The MPI allows users to simulate the assembly operations in a natural manner similar to 1PP, while providing users with an overview of the assembly status through the WIM to assess the assemblability with superior spatial awareness. Two studies were conducted to test the performance of the proposed MPI. The first study tested user’s interaction performance in MPI using a common interaction task, which reveals stronger spatial awareness in MPI than in 1PP without the cost of losing natural interaction. Based on the results of the first study, the second study tested the performance, usability, and workload of MPI in an assemblability assessment task. The results show the advantages of MPI in the reachability evaluation in the narrow spaces. The main contribution of this paper is improving the interface and user-interface interaction in VR-aided assembly assessment system to improve user’s interaction performance and assessment ability in narrow assembly spaces.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 79%