From: Ken Hinckley [kenh@microsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 3:19 PM
To: 'bowman@vt.edu'; 3dui List
Subject: RE: need references


The effects of tracking characteristics have been pretty well studied. These
are a few references that I have. I believe this literature goes much
deeper, especially if you start looking into flight simulator research, as
well as motor behavior studies in the psychology literature.  The Welford
book might be a good place to start looking for that kind of stuff, but I'm
not sure.

Ken

Ware, C. and R. Balakrishnan (1994). "Reaching for Objects in VR Displays:
Lag and Frame Rate." ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 1(4):
331-356.

MacKenzie, I. S. and C. Ware (1993). Lag as a Determinant of Human
Performance in Interactive Systems. INTERCHI'93 Conference on Human Factors
in Computing Systems.

Adelstein, B., E. Johnston, et al. (1992). A Testbed for Chacterizing
Dynamic Response of Virtual Environment Spatial Sensors. Proc. UIST 92.

So, R. H. Y. and M. J. Griffin (1991). "Effects of Time Delays on Head
Tracking Performance and the Benefits of Lag Compensation by Image
Deflection." AIAA-91-2926-CP.

Welford, A. (1976). Skilled Performance: Perceptual and Motor Skills.
Glenview, IL, Scott, Foresman, and Co.



Ken Hinckley
Microsoft Research
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Redmond, WA 98052
(425) 703-9065
kenh@microsoft.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Bowman [mailto:bowman@vt.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 6:57 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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