FI3D: Direct-touch interaction for the exploration of 3D scientific visualization spaces

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1613-1622

  Yu, Lingyun ^a   Svetachov, Pjotr ^a   Isenberg, Petra ^b   Everts, Maarten H ^a   Isenberg, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

3D navigation and exploration; Direct touch interaction; evaluation; illustrative visualization; wall displays

Indexed keywords

3D NAVIGATION; EVALUATION; ILLUSTRATIVE VISUALIZATION; TOUCH INTERACTION; WALL DISPLAYS;

DATA VISUALIZATION; NAVIGATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78149256585     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.157     Document Type: Article

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