A Multi-Touch enabled Human-Transporter Metaphor for Virtual 3D Traveling

In this tech-note we demonstrate how multi-touch hand gestures in combination with foot gestures can be used to perform navigation tasks in interactive 3D environments. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are well suited as a complex testbed for evaluation of user interfaces based on multi-modal input. Recent developments in the area of interactive surfaces enable the construction of lowcost multi-touch displays and relatively inexpensive sensor technology to detect foot gestures, which allows to explore these input modalities for virtual reality environments. In this tech-note, we describe an intuitive 3D user interface metaphor and corresponding hardware, which combine multi-touch hand and foot gestures for interaction with spatial data.

@InProceedings\{VSBH10b,
  author       = "Valkov, Dimitar and Steinicke, Frank and Bruder, Gerd and Hinrichs, Klaus H.",
  title        = "A Multi-Touch enabled Human-Transporter Metaphor for Virtual 3D Traveling",
  booktitle    = "Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI)",
  pages        = "79--82",
  year         = "2010",
  publisher    = "IEEE Press",
  note         = "(acceptance rate 25\%)",
  url          = "http://basilic.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/Publications/2010/VSBH10b"
}