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Mesh-Grab and Arcball-3D: Ray-based 6-DOF Object Manipulation

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Nicholas Katzakis,

Kiyoshi Kiyokawa,

Haruo TakemuraAuthors Info & Claims

APCHI '13: Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction

Pages 129 - 136

https://doi.org/10.1145/2525194.2525198

Published: 24 September 2013 Publication History

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Manipulation of 3D objects is important for collaboration and education, where a presenter might wish to manipulate a 3D object to present it to an audience. We present Mesh-Grab and Arcball-3D; two ray-based techniques for manipulating remote 3D objects using a handheld wand and present the results of a formal evaluation session where we compared them against the state-of-the-art in direct interaction techniques. In a 6-DOF docking task, our proposed techniques performed slightly slower than Scaled HOMER but overall, participants showed preference towards Arcball-3D and complained about fatigue and awkward arm postures on Scaled HOMER. In addition to the users' preference, as ray-based techniques do not require full-range rotation, we conclude that they are a viable alternative to direct interaction.

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Mesh-Grab and Arcball-3D: Ray-based 6-DOF Object Manipulation
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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DOI:10.1145/2525194

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