CrOS: a touch screen interaction technique for cursor manipulation on 2-manifolds

  • Authors:
  • Manuel Veit;Antonio Capobianco;Dominique Bechmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Holo3, Schiltigheim, Alsace, France;Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France;Universite de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 18th ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present a new Virtual Reality (VR) interaction technique, called Cursor On Surface (CrOS). It is an interaction technique for cursor manipulation on 2-manifolds using touch screen input. The objective is to provide a technique to easily perform complex modelling operations in VR. CrOS is based on an algorithm which maps 2-D inputs into cursor displacements on 3-D surfaces. The technique relies on two principles. Firstly, it restricts the manipulation space to a 2-D space. Secondly, it reduces the complexity of the task through an automatic orientation algorithm that prevent the user from switching between edition task and object repositioning task.