From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Doug Bowman
[bowman@vt.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 9:57 AM
To: 3dui List
Subject: need references

Hi all,

I've got a couple of new research projects lined up, and
I'm wondering if anyone has references to related work
that I should know about.

The first project deals with the use of pinch gloves for
effective VE interfaces. I know that Mapes' SmartScene/Polyshop
used pinch gloves in some interesting ways. I've also seen
a paper from Stanford in which pinch gloves were used to
interact on the virtual workbench. I also know about Joe
LaViola's flex-and-pinch combination gloves. Are there other
references/systems I should know about? Any with novel uses of
pinch gloves?

The second idea concerns comparisons of different types of
tracking systems. I know that there have been some studies on
the 'system characteristics' (lag, accuracy, ...) of magnetic 
trackers and some of the other types. Anyone have references
to those? I'm more interested in the effect these tracking systems
have on interactive tasks. Has anyone done any studies looking
at the effect of tracking characteristics on task performance?
I know of Ben Watson's work (I should - I spent about 5 hours
in an HMD doing his experiments!), but that looked at overall
system latency, not just tracker latency. Others?

Thanks!
Doug

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