Evaluation of the Command and Control Cube

  • Authors:
  • Jerome Grosjean;Jean-Marie Burkhardt;Sabine Coquillart;Paul Richard

  • Affiliations:
  • i3D INRIA;INRIA - Universite Paris V;i3D INRIA;ISTIA - Innovation

  • Venue:
  • ICMI '02 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Application control in virtual environments (VE) is still an open field of research. The Command and Control Cube (C3) developed by Grosjean et al. is a quick access menu forthe VE configuration called workbench (a large screen displaying stereoscopic images). The C3 presents two modes, one with the graphical display of the cubic structure associated to the C3 and a blind mode for expert users, with no feedback. In this paper we conduct formal tests of the C3 under four different conditions: the visual mode with the graphical display, the blind mode with no feedback and two additional conditions enhancing the expert blind mode: a tactile mode with the tactile feedback of a Cyberglove驴 and a sound mode with a standard audio device. Results show that the addition of sound and tactil feedback is more disturbing to the users than the blind mode. The visual mode performs the best although the blind mode achieves some promising results.