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- Title
Improving 3D navigation techniques in multiscale environments: a cubemap-based approach.
- Authors
Trindade, Daniel; Raposo, Alberto
- Abstract
Navigation in virtual 3D environments, especially those with multiscale features, is still a problem for many users. In this regard, a good design of the navigation interfaces is critical to ensure that the users navigate with the best possible efficiency and comfort. In this paper, we present improvements for two well-known interfaces: fly, including support to collision treatment and automatic navigation speed adjustment in relation to scale, and examine, with automatic pivot point. Such techniques are based on the cubemap structure, which provides information about the surrounding environment at each instant. Usability tests with both beginner and advanced users revealed that the proposed techniques created a significant improvement in the execution of navigation tasks and a reduction in navigation errors.
- Subjects
NAVIGATION; THREE-dimensional display systems; VIRTUAL reality; USER interfaces; COMPUTER systems
- Publication
Multimedia Tools & Applications, 2014, Vol 73, Issue 2, p939
- ISSN
1380-7501
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11042-012-1127-8