Metaphor-aware 3D navigation

Author

Santos, C. Russo Dos ; Gros, P. ; Abel, P. ; Loisel, D. ; Trichaud, N. ; Paris, J.P.

Author_Institution

Eurecom Inst., Sophia Antipolis, France

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

165

Abstract

Anyone who has ever experienced three-dimensional (3D) interfaces will agree that navigating in a 3D world is not a trivial task. The user interface of traditional 3D browsers provides simple navigation tools that allow the user to modify the camera parameters such as orientation, position and focal. Using these tools, it is frequent that, after some movements, the user is lost in the virtual 3D space and usually tries to restart from the beginning. We present how the 3D navigation problem is addressed in the context of the CyberNet project (Abel et al., 2000). Our underlying principle is to help the user navigate by adapting the navigation tool to the virtual world. We feel that the navigation schemes provided by the 3D browsers are too generic for some specific 3D tools and we have developed adaptive navigation features that are dependent on the 3D metaphor used for visualizing the information and on the user´s task

Keywords

Internet; computer network management; data visualisation; user interfaces; 3D browsers; 3D interfaces; CyberNet project; adaptive navigation features; computer network management; information visualization; metaphor-aware 3D navigation; three-dimensional interfaces; user interface; virtual 3D space; Cameras; Data visualization; Decision making; Mice; Motion planning; Navigation; Project management; Research and development management; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 2000. InfoVis 2000. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

1522-404X

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0804-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFVIS.2000.885104

Filename

885104