From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Doug Bowman
[bowman@vt.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 11:03 AM
To: 3dui List
Subject: FW: Subscription to the 3D UI mailing list.

Another message which never got sent...

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Doug A. Bowman, Ph.D.          (540) 231-7537
Assistant Professor             bowman@vt.edu
Computer Science        www.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/
Virginia Tech 

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Bowman [mailto:bowman@vt.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 4:21 PM
To: 3dui List; gunnab@ifi.uio.no
Subject: FW: Subscription to the 3D UI mailing list.


Here's a question from a new member - please reply both
to the list and to him.

P.S. Awfully quiet lately...let us know what you're working
on these days!
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Doug A. Bowman, Ph.D.          (540) 231-7537
Assistant Professor             bowman@vt.edu
Computer Science        www.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/
Virginia Tech 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gunnar Bergersen [mailto:gunnab@ifi.uio.no]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 4:14 PM
To: bowman@vt.edu
Subject: Subscription to the 3D UI mailing list.



Hi.

I am a student at the University of Oslo, Norway currently working on my
degree in computer engineering. During the last year, I have been working
on a final report (1 year workload) about the importance of user-friendly
interface design in 3D environments. I am doing my research at Telenor
Research and Development, in a small research group called Applied Media
Technology (http://amt.fou.telenor.no/). I am also currently working there
as a programmer part-time.   
           
The main focus in the report is whether animation in 3D models gives users
an easier way of understanding the properties and abilities an interactive
3D object affords. The setting is in a screen-based, distributed (4
users), virtual 3D environment, with a normal mouse as the interaction
device. In this regard, I am on a never-ending hunt for relevant
publications. I am also wondering if this has been done before in an
empirical study.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, especially if you know of something
similar that has been done before. 

Yours sincerely,          

Gunnar Bergersen 
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