Evaluation of a Reconfigurable Tangible Device for Collaborative Manipulation of Objects in Virtual Reality

dc.contributor.authorAguerreche, Laurenten_US
dc.contributor.authorDuval, Thierryen_US
dc.contributor.authorLécuyer, Anatoleen_US
dc.contributor.editorIan Grimstead and Hamish Carren_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-31T10:30:56Z
dc.date.available2013-10-31T10:30:56Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we introduce an evaluation of a Reconfigurable Tangible Device (RTD) for collaborative manipulation of objects in virtual environments. The considered RTD, called RTD-3, has a triangular shape that naturally provides three points of manipulation. The shape of the tangible triangle can be reconfigured at any time as its branches can be shrunk or stretched by users at will. Thanks to this simple shape the RTD-3 can be easily attached to any 3D virtual object and fully defines its virtual motion in 6 Degrees of Freedom. We have conducted an experiment to assess the potential of the RTD-3 and compare it with classical techniques used for collaborative virtual manipulation. Participants were asked to manipulate and assemble, in a collaborative manner, virtual parts. Our results suggest that the physical manipulation proposed by the tangible device is significantly preferred by participants in terms of immersion, realism of interaction and preparation to the real task. Although our approach is slightly slower than the other tested methods, it produces the fewest collisions.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationTheory and Practice of Computer Graphicsen_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-905673-83-8en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/TPCG/TPCG11/081-088en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectCategories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation (e.g. HCI)]: Multimedia Information Systems-Artificial, augmented, and virtual realities I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]: Methodology and Techniques-Interaction techniquesen_US
dc.titleEvaluation of a Reconfigurable Tangible Device for Collaborative Manipulation of Objects in Virtual Realityen_US
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