Title :
Efficiency of techniques for mixed-space collaborative navigation
Author :
Stafford, Aaron ; Thomas, Bruce H. ; Piekarski, Wayne
Author_Institution :
Wearable Comput. Lab., Univ. of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Abstract :
This paper describes the results of a study conducted to determine the efficiency of visual cues for a collaborative navigation task in a mixed-space environment. The task required a user with an exocentric view of a virtual room to navigate a fully immersed user with an egocentric view to an exit. The study compares natural hand-based gestures, a mouse-based interface and an audio only technique to determine their relative efficiency on task completion times. The results show that visual cue-based collaborative navigation techniques are significantly more efficient than an audio-only technique.
Keywords :
groupware; mouse controllers (computers); navigation; user interfaces; audio only technique; mixed-space collaborative navigation; mouse-based interface; natural hand-based gestures; visual cue; Augmented reality; Buildings; Collaboration; Computer graphics; Electronic mail; Navigation; Three dimensional displays; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Wearable computers; H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces—Evaluation/methodology; I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]: Methodology and Techniques—Interaction techniques; I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism—Virtual reality;
Conference_Titel :
Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2008. ISMAR 2008. 7th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2840-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2859-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISMAR.2008.4637356
