Browsing 3D Media Using Cylindrical Multi-touch Interface

Author

Shizuki, Buntarou ; Naito, Masaki ; Tanaka, Jiro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba

fYear

2008

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

489

Lastpage

490

Abstract

We describe interaction techniques for browsing 3D media using our cylindrical multi-touch interface (CMTI). CMTI uses a cylinder wall as its controlling surface. Because the control area of the interface is in cylindrical polar coordinates, the use of the depth along the surface enables the user to interact in 3D space even though the controlling surface is still a 2D surface. Moreover, the nature of the multi-touch interface enables the user to manipulate objects and the viewpoint with both bare hands. The user can easily examine complex 3D media using the interaction techniques described with the power of CMTI.

Keywords

computer graphics; information retrieval; multimedia computing; touch sensitive screens; user interfaces; 3D media browsing; cylinder wall; cylindrical multitouch interface; Bibliographies; Cameras; Computer displays; Computer science; Costs; Data mining; Data visualization; Light emitting diodes; Sea surface; Three dimensional displays; CMTI; cylinder; multi-touch interface; touch interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia, 2008. ISM 2008. Tenth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Berkeley, CA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3454-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3454-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISM.2008.64

Filename

4741212