3D gestures on 2D screens for mobile games

Author

Valdez, Nicanor ; Besas, Ronnie ; Yu China ; Dumalaon, Donna ; Atienza, Rowel

Author_Institution

Electr. & Electron. Eng. Inst., Univ. of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines

fYear

2014

fDate

28-30 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

232

Lastpage

237

Abstract

In most currently available 3D mobile games, players are provided with pre-programmed 2D gestures for 3D interaction. We believe that user experience can be improved if game objects can be controlled in 3D. Common 3D manipulation techniques on 2D screens require mastery and multiple hands, and are more suited for CAD applications than games. This paper proposes a one-finger manipulation technique that enables a player to control 3D game objects by using a depth estimation technique. Experimental results show that the average completion time for a peg-in-hole task is less than 2 seconds.

Keywords

CAD; computer games; gesture recognition; graphical user interfaces; mobile computing; screens (display); 2D screens; 3D game objects; 3D gestures; 3D interaction; 3D manipulation techniques; 3D mobile games; CAD applications; depth estimation technique; one-finger manipulation technique; peg-in-hole task; pre-programmed 2D gestures; Birds; Cameras; Games; Portals; Robot kinematics; Three-dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile, 2014 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Bali

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3710-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APWiMob.2014.6920274

Filename

6920274