Evaluating the Usability of Recent Consumer-grade 3D Input Devices

C. Siegl, J. Süßmuth, F. Bauer, M. Stamminger

2014

Abstract

Recently, 3D input devices such as the Microsoft Kinect sensor or the Leap Motion controller became increasingly popular - the later specialized in recognizing hand-gestures, advertising a very precise localization of tools and fingers. Such devices promise to enable a touchless interaction with the computer in three-dimensional space enabling the design of entirely new user interfaces for natural 3D-modeling. However, while implementing a modeling application we found that there are still fundamental problems that can not easily be solved: The lack of a precise and atomic gesture for enabling and disabling interaction (clicking gesture) and a poor human depth perception and localization within an invisible coordinate frame. In this paper, we show why the precision of the interaction is not limited by hardware but software constraints.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Siegl C., Süßmuth J., Bauer F. and Stamminger M. (2014). Evaluating the Usability of Recent Consumer-grade 3D Input Devices . 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 417-423. DOI: 10.5220/0004653404170423

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp14,
author={C. Siegl and J. Süßmuth and F. Bauer and M. Stamminger},
title={Evaluating the Usability of Recent Consumer-grade 3D Input Devices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={417-423},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004653404170423},
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 - Evaluating the Usability of Recent Consumer-grade 3D Input Devices
SN - 978-989-758-002-4
AU - Siegl C.
AU - Süßmuth J.
AU - Bauer F.
AU - Stamminger M.
PY - 2014
SP - 417
EP - 423
DO - 10.5220/0004653404170423