From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Doug Bowman
[bowman@vt.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 9:06 AM
To: 3D UI list
Subject: RE: Search for papers on 3d hmd modelers

There are several examples of immersive modeling systems,
some of which were used for educational purposes.

Mark Mine's work (ISAAC and CHIMP systems) is very important
in this area. Both of these used HMDs.

The systems I have worked on are the Conceptual Design Space
and the Virtual Habitat. Both of these used HMDs, and both
were intended for educating graduate students about design.
See my web page for references.

There are other 3D design systems which didn't use HMDs, such
as Sketch from Brown, and JDCAD from U. Alberta.

A good resource is the CVDE mailing list. See:
http://kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~ernst/cvde/cvde_hm.html

Hope that helps,
Doug

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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: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu
> [mailto:owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Ivan Poupyrev
> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 5:31 AM
> To: 3D UI list
> Subject: Fwd: Search for papers on 3d hmd modelers
>
>
> This is a message from Hannes Kaufmann, Vienna University of
> Technology.
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> ivan
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> Dear all,
>
> I'm sorry that this is a little bit off topic (not a question about user
> interfaces)... I'm currently writing on my first paper - it will be
> about a HMD based 3D geometric construction tool that can be used in
> mathematic and geometry education. It's based on the "Studierstube", a
> collaborative augmented reality system (we're using 2 HMDs and the
> Personal Interaction Panel, a two-handed 3D interaction tool composed of
> instrumented hand-help props – a pen and a pad equipped with position
> and orientation trackers).
> Anyway, I want to ask you if you know papers about 3D modeling VR
> systems (using HMDs)?
> Do you even know papers about such systems being used in education?
> I couldn't find anything yet. I know about 3DM by Butterworth (1992)
> which is a VR 3d modeling system but I don't know others and nothing
> that has been used in education.
>
> I want to publish in an educational oriented journal and maybe some of
> you know papers with good evaluation studies proving that VR helps to
> improve spatial abilities. I've found one from HITL by Osberg (1997).
>
> It would be interesting to know which spatial abilities (they are
> usually splitted in 5 components spatial perception, spatial
> visualization, mental rotations, spatial relations and spatial
> orientation) are especially trained in VR and if all of them can be
> improved and if there are the same effects of VR on men and women (there
> are sex related differences in spatial abilities).
>
> thank you very much in advance,
> Hannes
>
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> Vienna University of Technology
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