From: Maarten van Dantzich [maartenv@MICROSOFT.com]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 1:14 PM
To: '3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu'
Subject: Member introduction


I quietly joined the list a while back.

I'm in the Adaptive Systems & Interaction group at Microsoft Research,
working with George Robertson, Ken Hinckley, Dan Robbins, et al. on 3D UI
for the desktop. I was one of the implementers of the Data Mountain (3D UI
for Web Favorites & for personal document management in general), and more
recently we built the Task Gallery, a 3D window manager that hosts real
(unmodified) Windows applications. In general we try to do 3D with a very
low barrier to entry (2D interaction technques, no special devices) while
still getting some of the advantages of 3D visuals (perceptual cues, spatial
metaphor, etc.); we also try to do some psych studies to probe some basic
research issues--most notably use of spatial memory as an aid to organizing.


>> Maarten.