HardBorders: a new haptic approach for selection tasks in 3D menus

  • Authors:
  • Caroline Essert-Villard;Antonio Capobianco

  • Affiliations:
  • LSIIT / University of Strasbourg -- Pôle API, Illkirch cedex -- France;LSIIT / University of Strasbourg -- Pôle API, Illkirch cedex -- France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a 3D menu with a new technique of haptic guidance, for virtual environments. The 3D menu consists in a thin polyhedral shape, with the items at the corners. The HardBorders technique haptically simulates the collisions of the pointer with the borders of the polyhedron, making it glide towards the items of the menu. A comparison with 2 reference modalities has been performed, showing a clear advantage of our HardBorders technique.