Multi-touch techniques for exploring large-scale 3D astrophysical simulations

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 2213-2222

  Fu, Chi Wing ^a   Goh, Wooi Boon ^a   Ng, Junxiang Allen ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

astronomy; large spatial scale; multi touch interaction; navigation control

Indexed keywords

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; ASTROPHYSICAL SIMULATIONS; EMPTY SPACE; FINGER GESTURES; LARGE-SCALE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; MULTI-TOUCH; NAVIGATION CONTROL; NAVIGATION CONTROLS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; NOVICE USER; SPATIAL CONTEXT; SPATIAL SCALE; UNIQUE FEATURES; USER EXPERIENCE; VIRTUAL NAVIGATION; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTER CRIME; HUMAN ENGINEERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 77953986071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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