[Poster] Touch gestures for improved 3D object manipulation in mobile augmented reality

Author

Tiefenbacher, Philipp ; Pflaum, Andreas ; Rigoll, Gerhard

Author_Institution

Inst. for Human-Machine Commun., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Munich, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

315

Lastpage

316

Abstract

This work presents three techniques for 3D manipulation on mobile touch devices, taking the specifics of mobile AR scenes into account. We compare the common direct manipulation technique with two indirect techniques, which utilize only the thumbs to perform the transformations. The evaluation of the manipulation variants is conducted in a mixed reality (MR) environment which takes advantage of the controlled conditions of a full virtual reality (VR) system. A study with 18 participants shows that the two-thumb method tops the other techniques. It performs better with respect to the total manipulation time and total number of gestures.

Keywords

augmented reality; gesture recognition; mobile computing; 3D object manipulation; MR environment; VR system; direct manipulation technique; full virtual reality system; mixed reality environment; mobile augmented reality; mobile touch devices; touch gesture; two-thumb method; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Performance evaluation; Three-dimensional displays; Thumb; Tracking; Virtual reality; H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]; User Interfaces — Interaction styles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2014 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Munich

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISMAR.2014.6948467

Filename

6948467