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In four experiments participants were allowed to manipulate a virtual 3-D object in order to infer and draw 2-D cross sections of it. Key differences between the experiments were the interface and degree of interactivity available. Two experiments used a three degrees-of-freedom inertia tracking device allowing unconstrained interactions and the other two experiments used a slider bar that allowed only one degree-of-freedom movement at a time. Somewhat counter-intuitively, we found that the constrained interface allowed people to access task-relevant information more effectively and resulted in better performance on the task.
This research was supported by National Science Foundation grant 0313237 and by a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Graduate Fellowship to Peter Khooshabeh under DOE contract number DE-AC05-00OR22750.
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Khooshabeh, P., Hegarty, M., Keehner, M., Cohen, C. (2008). Benefits of Constrained Interactivity in Using a Three-Dimensional Diagram. In: Stapleton, G., Howse, J., Lee, J. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87730-1_43
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