Towards a Natural Interaction for Rapid Prototyping of Parametric Closets

Iván Rodríguez, Celso Campos, Enrique Barreiro, Rocío Veiga, Jorge Vázquez

2014

Abstract

Custom closets customers usually lack the expertise to design their desired closet. The use of a software tool that incorporates the design expertise might allow them to sketch their ideas without third party oversight. While architecture related applications are very powerful and make it possible to have an accurate graphical representation of real world, these Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools demand high technical training and their use in the engineering field is generic. Our work, framed within the development of a rapid prototyping tool of custom closets called Sketch Arm, introduces an interaction proposal that seeks to minimize the time and complexity associated with typical operations in CAD. Supported by multi-touch capabilities of today’s mobile devices, our system allows users to manipulate the closet structure directly in real time by using a minimalist graphical user interface (GUI) together with a touch interface based on easily recognizable gesture patterns. Direct on-screen data manipulation is very attractive to the end-user in general and highly beneficial for novice IT users in particular while gesture-based interaction is extremely intuitive for performing artistic tasks. Throughout the article, we will describe in depth the designed interaction system and we will present the original solutions we made to common problems in touch systems like accuracy and occlusion.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Rodríguez I., Campos C., Barreiro E., Vázquez J. and Veiga R. (2014). Towards a Natural Interaction for Rapid Prototyping of Parametric Closets . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-002-4, pages 409-416. DOI: 10.5220/0004633104090416

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp14,
author={Iván Rodríguez and Celso Campos and Enrique Barreiro and Jorge Vázquez and Rocío Veiga},
title={Towards a Natural Interaction for Rapid Prototyping of Parametric Closets},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={409-416},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004633104090416},
isbn={978-989-758-002-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
TI - Towards a Natural Interaction for Rapid Prototyping of Parametric Closets
SN - 978-989-758-002-4
AU - Rodríguez I.
AU - Campos C.
AU - Barreiro E.
AU - Vázquez J.
AU - Veiga R.
PY - 2014
SP - 409
EP - 416
DO - 10.5220/0004633104090416