Tinmith-Hand: unified user interface technology for mobile outdoor augmented reality and indoor virtual reality

Author

Piekarski, Wayne ; Thomas, Bruce H.

Author_Institution

Wearable Comput. Lab., Univ. of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

287

Lastpage

288

Abstract

This paper presents a unified user interface technology, using 3D interaction techniques, constructive solid geometry and a glove-based menuing system, known as Tinmith-Hand, to support mobile outdoor augmented reality (AR) applications and indoor virtual reality (VR) applications. Tinmith-Hand uses similar concepts for both domains, so that AR and VR applications are consistent and simple to use. The future goal of this user interface is to allow collaboration between outdoor AR and indoor VR systems

Keywords

augmented reality; data gloves; graphical user interfaces; solid modelling; virtual reality; 3D interaction techniques; Tinmith-Hand; consistent applications; constructive solid geometry; ease of use; glove-based menuing system; indoor virtual reality applications; mobile outdoor augmented reality applications; systems collaboration; unified user interface technology; Arm; Augmented reality; Collaboration; Laboratories; Mobile computing; Solids; Switches; User interfaces; Virtual reality; Wearable computers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Reality, 2002. Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1087-8270

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1492-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VR.2002.996542

Filename

996542