Project Number
- 317
Title
- A New Step-In-Place Locomotion Interface for Virtual Environments With Large Display System
Description
- Intuitive, self-orienting locomotion interface for virtual environment exploration.
Contact
- Laroussi Bouguila
Affiliation
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
Address
- Precision and Intelligence Laboratory
- 4259 Nagatsuta Midori-ku
- Yokohama 226-8503 Japan
- 4259 Nagatsuta Midori-ku
- laroussi@hi.pi.titech.ac.jp
WWW
Year
- 2002
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "The project presents a new locomotion interface for a virtual environment (VE) with large display system. Users will be able to direct and control the traveling in the VE by in-place stepping and turning actions. Using a turntable technology, visual feedback is continuously provided through the use of a screen of limited size."
- Advantages of the proposed design include:
- 1 - tracking is achieved without attachments to user's body - tracking is possible through turntable sensors and infrared cameras
- 2 - omnidirectional motion can be supported even with fixed field (limited) displays
- 3 - the compact locomotion system can be integrated within almost any VE with a large display system such as a CAVE
- 4 - stepping movement keeps travel experience initiated, sustained, and controlled by human locomotion preserving navigation and spatial perception skills
Sight
- graphics workstation, projection display
Sound
- embedded audio
Touch
- step-in-place locomotion turntable platform
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 103 - sense cue (vis,aud,tac/ff/mo,olf,tast)
Remarks
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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