Usability evaluation of the EPOCH multimodal user interface: Designing 3D tangible interactions

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 116-122

  Petridis, Panagiotis ^a   Mania, Katerina ^a   Pletinckx, Daniel ^b   White, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Multimodal user interfaces; Perception; Presence; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

ARTEFACTS; INFORMATION SENSOR; MULTIMODAL INTERFACES; MULTIMODAL USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 34547432103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180495.1180521     Document Type: Conference Paper

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