The effect of DOF separation in 3D manipulation tasks with multi-touch displays

  • Authors:
  • Anthony Martinet;Géry Casiez;Laurent Grisoni

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Lille, France;University of Lille, France;University of Lille, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Multi-touch displays represent a promising technology for the display and manipulation of data. While the manipulation of 2D data has been widely explored, 3D manipulation with multi-touch displays remains largely uncovered. Based on an analysis of the integration and separation of degrees of freedom, we propose a taxonomy for 3D manipulation techniques with multi-touch displays. Using that taxonomy, we introduce DS3 (Depth-Separated Screen Space), a new 3D manipulation technique based on the separation of translation and rotation. In a controlled experiment, we compare DS3 with Sticky Tools and Screen-Space. Results show that separating the control of translation and rotation significantly affects performance for 3D manipulation, with DS3 being at least 22% faster.