Evaluating Rules of Interaction for Object Manipulation in Cluttered Virtual Environments

Ruddle, Roy A., Savage, Justin C. D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5123-3475 and Jones, Dylan Marc ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8783-5542 2002. Evaluating Rules of Interaction for Object Manipulation in Cluttered Virtual Environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 11 (6) , pp. 591-609. 10.1162/105474602321050721

Preview

PDF - Published Version Download (278kB) | Preview

Abstract

A set of rules is presented for the design of interfaces that allow virtual objects to be manipulated in 3D virtual environments (VEs). The rules differ from other interaction techniques because they focus on the problems of manipulating objects in cluttered spaces rather than open spaces. Two experiments are described that were used to evaluate the effect of different interaction rules on participants' performance when they performed a task known as “the piano mover's problem.” This task involved participants in moving a virtual human through parts of a virtual building while simultaneously manipulating a large virtual object that was held in the virtual human's hands, resembling the simulation of manual materials handling in a VE for ergonomic design. Throughout, participants viewed the VE on a large monitor, using an “over-the-shoulder” perspective. In the most cluttered VEs, the time that participants took to complete the task varied by up to 76% with different combinations of rules, thus indicating the need for flexible forms of interaction in such environments.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Additional Information:	Pdf uploaded in accordance with publisher's policy at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1054-7460/ (accessed 28/02/2014).
Publisher:	MIT Press
ISSN:	1054-7460
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	07 May 2023 13:04
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/11973

Citation Data

Cited 2 times in Scopus. View in Scopus. Powered By Scopus® Data

Actions (repository staff only)

Edit Item