DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR DESKTOP 3D USER INTERFACES - Case Movie Plaza

Marja Tyynelä, Timo Jokela, Minna Isomursu, Petri Kotro, Olli Mannerkoski

2005

Abstract

3D user interfaces in desktop applications are becoming more common and available to all users. However, not many guidelines are available to support desktop 3D user interface design. We derived a set of design principles from the practices of a company specialized to 3D graphics and user interfaces and made a prototype to evaluate these principles. The results of our evaluations show that some of the principles - on the structure of the space, navigation and interaction - helped users while some others did not have the desired impact. We conclude that design guidelines for 3D user interfaces can be derived from the designers’ practices but research is needed to make principles more specific and to test their affect more precisely.

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Tyynelä M., Jokela T., Isomursu M., Kotro P. and Mannerkoski O. (2005). DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR DESKTOP 3D USER INTERFACES - Case Movie Plaza . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 85-90. DOI: 10.5220/0002554100850090


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Marja Tyynelä and Timo Jokela and Minna Isomursu and Petri Kotro and Olli Mannerkoski},
title={DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR DESKTOP 3D USER INTERFACES - Case Movie Plaza},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={85-90},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002554100850090},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR DESKTOP 3D USER INTERFACES - Case Movie Plaza
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Tyynelä M.
AU - Jokela T.
AU - Isomursu M.
AU - Kotro P.
AU - Mannerkoski O.
PY - 2005
SP - 85
EP - 90
DO - 10.5220/0002554100850090