A 3D UI for service multitasking in a 3D city map

  • Authors:
  • Seamus Hickey;Minna Pakanen;Leena Arhippainen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oulu, Finland;University of Oulu, Finland;University of Oulu, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The adoption of 3D map based services by users will be more likely if they can provide additional value and utility, while maintaining visual appeal and usability. We present a 3D user interface which objectifies real-time data, provides a set of operations for that data and uses simple object manipulation. In user tests focusing on the usefulness of this approach, our system scored highly for interesting, useful, easy, fast and natural. In our user interface, users liked the 'drag to service' option, but 'drag to map' was not considered to be easy or a natural means of behaving.