From: Doug Bowman <bowman@vt.edu>
 Date:
December 1, 2003 2:02:13 PM EST
 To: Pedro Teixeira <pedr0_teixeira@ig.com.br>
 Cc: 3dui@hitl.washington.edu
 Subject: Re: On guidelines

 Pedro,

 There are some guidelines that have been put forward, e.g.

 Gabbard, J. (1997). Taxonomy of Usability Characteristics in Virtual
 Environments.
Unpublished Masters Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic
 Institute and
State University.

 Kaur, K. (1999). Designing Virtual Environments for Usability.
 Doctoral thesis,
University College, London.

 Bowman, D. (2002). Principles for the Design of Performance-Oriented
 Interaction Techniques.
In K. Stanney (Ed.), Handbook of Virtual
 Environments (pp. 277-300):
Lawrence Erlbaum.

 ...but I think the general statement is still true - there is no
 standardized set of guidelines. The situation with software tools is
 also still bad - there are few software packages, if any, that help
 programmers easily implement 3D UIs.

 --Doug

 On
Dec 1, 2003, at 12:23 PM, Pedro Teixeira wrote:
>
>>
> Hi all,
>>
> As part of an academic project, I'm currently writing a 3Dui for the
> creation of scenes that can, hopefully, be saved using the x3d format
> (in Java that is, using the Xith3D for the curious (www.xith.org) --
> since Java3D seems dead).
>>
> While reading the 3D literature out there, I always find comments
> that one of the main drawbacks of implementing a 3Dui is that there
> is no standard guideline, or set of widgets, etc.. that are available
> for the programmer. But some of the papers I read are at least 10
> years old, so I wonder about the current state of designing a 3Dui,
> are there specific guidelines? If so, can some one point me to book
> or a link?

>>
>>
> best regards,
>>
> Pedro Teixeira
>
Warwick University, UK
>>
>>
> ps: how are excited are people about the new Sharp 3-D Debuts display
> laptop? haven't had the chance to see it yet, does it provide a
> legitimate 3d interaction? which 3d input devices will be used with
> it?
>>
>>
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