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The perspective wall: detail and context smoothly integrated
CHI '91 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
SDM: selective dynamic manipulation of visualizations
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CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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AVI '00 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
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VRST '01 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
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Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering Techniques 2000
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Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
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AFRIGRAPH '04 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Computer graphics, virtual reality, visualisation and interaction in Africa
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VIS '04 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04
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Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
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Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
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INFOVIS'03 Proceedings of the Ninth annual IEEE conference on Information visualization
Technical Section: View-projection animation for 3D occlusion management
Computers and Graphics
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INTERACT'07 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction
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Computers & Geosciences
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We present an empirical usability experiment studying the relative strengths and weaknesses of three different occlusion reduction techniques for discovering and accessing objects in information-rich 3D virtual environments. More specifically, the study compares standard 3D navigation, generalized fisheye techniques using object scaling and transparency, and the BalloonProbe interactive 3D space distortion technique. Subjects are asked to complete a number of different tasks, including counting, pattern recognition, and object relation, in different kinds of environments with various properties. The environments include a free-space abstract 3D environment and a virtual 3D walkthrough application for a simple building floor. The study involved 16 subjects and was conducted in a three-sided CAVE environment. Our results confirm the general guideline that each task calls for a specialized interaction--no single technique performed best across all tasks and worlds. The results also indicate a clear trade-off between speed and accuracy; simple navigation was the fastest but also most error-prone technique, whereas spherical BalloonProbe proved the most accurate but required longer completion time, making it suitable for applications where mistakes incur a high cost.