Abstract
The Pie Segment Slider is a novel parameter control interface combining the advantages of tangible input with the customizability of a graphical interface representation. The physical part of the interface consists of a round touchpad, which serves as an appropriate sensor for manipulating ring-shaped sliders arranged around a virtual object.
The novel interface concept allows to shift a substantial amount of interaction task time from task preparation to its exploratory execution. Our user study compared the task performance of the novel interface to a common touchpad-operated GUI and examined the task sequences of both solutions. The results confi rm the benefi ts of exploiting tangible input and proprioception for operating graphical user interface elements.
Documents and Papers
Kulik, A., Kunert, A., Lux, C., Froehlich, B.
The Pie Slider: Combining Advantages of the Real and the Virtual Space
In Proceedings of the 10th international Symposium on Smart Graphics, LNCS vol. 5531, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 93-104, 2009.
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Kunert, A., Kulik, A., Lux, C., and Fröhlich, B.
Facilitating system control in ray-based interaction tasks
In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (Kyoto, Japan, November 18 - 20, 2009).
S. N. Spencer, Ed. VRST '09. ACM, New York, NY, 183-186.
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