Poster: A hybrid direct visual editing method for architectural massing study in virtual environments

Author

Chen, Jian ; Bowman, Doug A. ; Laidlaw, David H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Brown Univ., Providence, RI

fYear

2009

fDate

14-15 March 2009

Firstpage

143

Lastpage

144

Abstract

We present a hybrid user interface and gesture-based direct visual editing techniques for quick and rough object creation and manipulation in three-dimensional (3D) virtual environments (VEs). The user interface includes a novel table-prop to resemble an architect´s physical workbench. A tracked pinch glove and a stylus pen provide both rough and fingertip level precise spatial input. For quick placement, objects do not float in space, but instead obey a set of constrained physics laws. Experimental results indicate our design is effective for architectural massing study. Our work contributes to the hardware system design and novel gesture-based interaction techniques, which have the potential to bring VEs into practical use in architecture.

Keywords

computer graphics; computer vision; virtual reality; architectural massing; gesture-based interaction techniques; hybrid direct visual editing method; hybrid user interface; virtual environments; Computer architecture; Computer graphics; Computer science; Costs; Hardware; Large screen displays; Physics computing; Shape; User interfaces; Virtual environment; 3D interaction; Hybrid environment; computer-aided massing study; physics-based object manipulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

3D User Interfaces, 2009. 3DUI 2009. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lafayette, LA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3965-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/3DUI.2009.4811227

Filename

4811227