Virtual Trackballs Revisited

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 206-216

  Henriksen, Knud ^a   Sporring, Jon ^b   Hornbæk, Kasper ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

2D mouse; 3D rotation; Arcball; Mathematical foundation; Usability review; Virtual trackball

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); POLYNOMIALS;

2D MOUSE; 3D ROTATION; ARCBALL; MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATION; USABILITY REVIEW; VIRTUAL TRACKBALL;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 1342345786     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2004.1260772     Document Type: Article

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