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Investigation of Secondary Views in a Multimodal VR Environment: 3D Lenses, Windows, and Mirrors

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2011)

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We investigate secondary view techniques in a multimodal VR environment for dataset exploration and interpretation. Secondary views, such as 3D lenses or mirrors, can present alternative viewpoints, different filtering options, or different data sets. We focus on 3D views showing surface features that are hidden in a main view. We present different view techniques, including new variations, and experimentally compare them. Experiment subjects marked paths on a geological dataset in a manner that required a secondary view for a portion of each path. We compared passive to interactive (reach-in) views, rotated to mirrored presentations, and box vs. window shapes. We also considered two types of path complexity arising from surface contact geometry impacting force feedback, as the level of lateral guidance provided by the contact geometry may impact relative effectiveness of different view techniques. We show several differences in task times, error rates, and subjective preferences. Best results were obtained with an interactive box shape.

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  1. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA

    Phanidhar Bezawada Raghupathy & Christoph W. Borst

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  1. University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, 89512, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA

    Song Wang

  6. HRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Road, 90265-4797, Malibu, CA, USA

    Kim Kyungnam

  7. Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907-2021, IN, USA

    Bedrich Benes

  8. Sandia National Laboratory, 87185, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Kenneth Moreland

  9. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 70504, LA, USA

    Christoph Borst

  10. Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Stephen DiVerdi

  11. Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 11201, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Chiang Yi-Jen

  12. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 94551-0808, Livermore, CA, USA

    Jiang Ming

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Bezawada Raghupathy, P., Borst, C.W. (2011). Investigation of Secondary Views in a Multimodal VR Environment: 3D Lenses, Windows, and Mirrors. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6939. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24031-7_18

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