The ToolFinger: Supporting Complex Direct Manipulation in Virtual Environments
| dc.contributor.author | Wesche, Gerold | en_US |
| dc.contributor.editor | Andreas Kunz and Joachim Deisinger | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-27T10:33:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-01-27T10:33:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Virtual environments (VEs) such as the Responsive Workbench were designed to support interactive, complex applications. The possibility of direct manual interaction with virtual objects, using both hands in a natural, intuitive way is one of the great advantages of such configurations. The related work on interaction techniques for these environments is mainly concentrated on hand-oriented, spatial manipulation. With increasing complexity of applications, application control issues become more relevant, including the problem of tool selection. In this paper, we propose a new interaction technique, optimized for handling tool selection tasks comfortably, called the ToolFinger. The ToolFinger is a hand held 3D widget, resembling a pen, to which a set of tools is assigned in a way that selecting and applying a tool are no longer two separated tasks. The ToolFinger concept allows a fluent integration of tool selections and tool switches with the workflow of geometry editing. It benefits complex manipulation tasks in applications such as immersive geometric modelling, or interactive visualisation. | en_US |
| dc.description.seriesinformation | Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.2312/EGVE/IPT_EGVE2003/039-046 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-905674-06-4 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1727-530X | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.2312/EGVE/IPT_EGVE2003/039-046 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The Eurographics Association | en_US |
| dc.title | The ToolFinger: Supporting Complex Direct Manipulation in Virtual Environments | en_US |
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