Testbed evaluation of virtual environment interaction techniques

As immersive virtual environment (VE) applications become more complex, it is clear that we need a rm understanding of the principles of VE interaction. In particular, designers need guidance in choosing three-dimensional interaction techniques. In this paper, we present a systematic approach, testbed evaluation, for the assessment of interaction techniques for VEs. Testbed evaluation uses formal frameworks and formal experiments with multiple independent and dependent variables to obtain a wide range of performance data for VE interaction techniques. We present two testbed experiments, covering techniques for the common VE tasks of travel and object selection/manipulation. The results of these experiments allow us to form general guidelines for VE interaction and to provide an empirical basis for choosing interaction techniques in VE applications. Evaluation of a real-world VE system based on the testbed results indicates that this approach can produce substantial improvements in usa...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: VRST
• Authors: Doug A. Bowman, Donald B. Johnson, Larry F. Hodges
• Keywords: Interaction Techniques, VE Interaction, VE Interaction Techniques, Virtual Reality, VRST 1999