Exploring the effects of environment density and target visibility on object selection in 3D virtual environments

IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2007 - Proceedings, 3DUI 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 115-122

  Vanacken, Lode ^a   Grossman, Tovi ^b   Coninx, Karin ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D interaction; Selection; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLANNING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TARGETS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISIBILITY;

3D INTERACTION; 3D USER INTERFACES; 3D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; DESIGN GUIDELINES; ENVIRONMENT DENSITY; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; OBJECT SELECTION; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SELECTION; SELECTION TECHNIQUES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 53049106454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/3DUI.2007.340783     Document Type: Conference Paper

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