Analysis of Locally Coupled 3D Manipulation Mappings Based on Mobile Device Motion

Description:

We examine a class of techniques for 3D object manipulation on mobile devices, in which the device’s physical motion is applied to 3D objects displayed on the device itself. This “local coupling” between input and display creates specific challenges compared to manipulation techniques designed for monitor-based or immersive virtual environments. Our work focuses specifically on the mapping between device motion and object motion. We review existing manipulation techniques and introduce a formal description of the main mappings under a common notation. Based on this notation, we analyze these mappings and their properties in order to answer crucial usability questions. We first investigate how the 3D objects should move on the screen, since the screen also moves with the mobile device during manipulation. We then investigate the effects of a limited range of manipulation and present a number of solutions to overcome this constraint. This work provides a theoretical framework to better understand the properties of locally-coupled 3D manipulation mappings based on mobile device motion.

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Main Reference:

Paul Issartel, Florimond Guéniat, Tobias Isenberg, and Mehdi Ammi (2017) Analysis of Locally Coupled 3D Manipulation Mappings Based on Mobile Device Motion. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 26(1):66–95, Winter 2017.

BibTeX entry:



@ARTICLE{Issartel:2017:ALC,
  author      = {Paul Issartel and Florimond Gu{\'e}niat and Tobias Isenberg and Mehdi Ammi},
  title       = {Analysis of Locally Coupled {3D} Manipulation Mappings Based on Mobile Device Motion},
  journal     = {Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments},
  year        = {2017},
  volume      = {26},
  number      = {1},
  month       = {Winter},
  pages       = {66--95},
  doi         = {10.1162/PRES_a_00287},
  doi_url     = {https://doi.org/10.1162/PRES_a_00287},
  oa_hal_url  = {https://hal.science/hal-01581185},
  preprint    = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1603.07462},
  url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/p/Issartel2018ALC},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/Issartel_2018_ALC.pdf},
}

Other Reference:

Paul Issartel, Florimond Guéniat, Tobias Isenberg, and Mehdi Ammi (2016) Analysis of Locally Coupled 3D Manipulation Mappings Based on Mobile Device Motion. arXiv preprint 1603.07462, arXiv.org, March 2016. Also see the article in Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments.

BibTeX entry:



@TECHREPORT{Issartel:2016:ALC,
  author      = {Paul Issartel and Florimond Gu{\'e}niat and Tobias Isenberg and Mehdi Ammi},
  title       = {Analysis of Locally Coupled {3D} Manipulation Mappings Based on Mobile Device Motion},
  type        = {arXiv preprint},
  year        = {2016},
  institution = {arXiv.org},
  number      = {1603.07462},
  month       = mar,
  doi         = {10.48550/arXiv.1603.07462},
  doi_url     = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1603.07462},
  oa_hal_url  = {https://hal.science/hal-01290738v3},
  preprint    = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1603.07462},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/Issartel_2016_ALC.pdf},
}

This work was done at the LIMSI lab at CNRS, France, as a collaboration with the AVIZ project group of Inria, France.