From: Rudy Darken [darken@acm.org]
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 3:20 PM
To: bowman@vt.edu; 3dui List
Subject: Re: comparing VE displays

Doug,

Seems like the best place to start is in decomposing "displays" into their
critical characteristics.

o   resolution
o   field-of-view
o   head coupling
o   etc......

These must then be tied to performance measures that can be generalized to
tasks (applications to use your term). You would then have a reasonable
framework for experimentation.

rudy



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>From: "Doug Bowman" <bowman@cs.vt.edu>
>To: "3dui List" <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>
>Subject: comparing VE displays
>Date: Wed, Sep 15, 1999, 11:15 AM
>

> Hi everyone,
>
> I know I've been quiet for quite a while (getting settled at Va. Tech),
> and the list has been quiet too, so let me throw out a question we can
> all sink our teeth into.
>
> I'm interested in comparisons of the various displays available for
> VEs (desktop mono, desktop stereo, workbench, HMD, CAVE, etc.), particularly
> in terms of how the various displays map to 1) applications and
> 2) interaction techniques.
>
> I haven't seen any empirical work on this topic (but if so please point
> me to it), but I'd like to get your intuitive feelings on this:
>
> -given a VE application, how do you decide what type of display to use?
> -what interaction techniques (or types of techniques) work well in
> conjunction with the various displays?
> -can we systematically design techniques or interfaces that will be
> "portable" across the range of displays?
> -what do you think are some other relevant research questions in this
> area?
>
> Looking forward to your responses.
>
> --Doug
>
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