Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:57:08 -0500
From: "Jeff Pierce" <jpierce@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: 2D interfaces in a 3D environment
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At 09:12 AM 11/21/01, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger wrote:
>Taking this argument one step further one can use what most people percieve
>as normal or "common sense" (e.g. that gravity exists :-) and use this to
>simplify interactions even further. This improves interaction speed by
>a factor of approximately 2.5. See the papers on the MIVE system
>on my WWW page.

Improves interaction speed for what task?  There are some obvious examples
(manipulation of objects at a distance, navigating large distances) where
using what people perceive as normal (or, more accurately, familiar) is
much, much slower than using a "magic" technique.

And as a minor point, I can posit