Finger Walking in Place (FWIP): A traveling technique in virtual environments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5166 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 58-69

  Kim, Ji Sun ^a   Gračanin, Denis ^a   Matković, Krešimir ^b   Quek, Francis ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VRVIS RESEARCH CENTER   (Austria)

Author keywords

Finger walking; Multi touch device; Navigation; Traveling techniques; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); EXPERIMENTS; SENSORS;

3D VIRTUAL WORLDS; A-PLANE; ACCURATE MOTION DETECTION; DATA GLOVES; FINGER-WALKING; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; LOCOMOTION TECHNIQUE; MULTI-TOUCH DEVICE; NAVIGATION; SENSING DEVICES; SMART GRAPHICS; TRAVELING TECHNIQUES; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLD;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 51849133646     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85412-8_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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