Navigation and interaction in a multi-scale stereoscopic environment

This poster explores navigation, interaction and stereoscopic display in a multi-scale virtual space. When interaction, especially two-handed, direct manipulation, is combined with stereoscopic stationary displays, there are trade-offs that must be considered. This poster gives an overview of these design issues and briefly describes our current multi-scale, application for exploring volumetric weather in its geospatial context in a VR system. The general importance of recognizing and using defined areas of user focus and of semi-automatically bringing these areas into the optimal interaction volume of the display system is described.

@InProceedings { HPWRP05a,
  author       = "Houtgast, E. and Pfeiffer, O. and Wartell, Z. and Ribarsky, W. and Post, Frits H.",
  title        = "Navigation and interaction in a multi-scale stereoscopic environment",
  booktitle    = "Proc. IEEE Virtual Reality 2005",
  month        = "March",
  year         = "2005",
  editor       = "B. Fr{\"o}hlich and S. Julier and H. Takemura",
  publisher    = "IEEE Computer Society Press",
  note         = "275--276",
  url          = "http://graphics.tudelft.nl/Publications-new/2005/HPWRP05a"
}