From: Joe Gabbard <jgabbard@vt.edu>
Date: August 12, 2003 10:39:59 AM EDT
To: Doug Bowman <bowman@vt.edu>, Jerry Isdale <isdale@hrl.com>, '3DUI' <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>
Cc: Marc Bernatchez <marc.bernatchez@polymtl.ca>, Deborah Hix <hix@cs.vt.edu>
Subject: Re: Is there any standard in VR?

All,

We try to keep our publications up-to-date online at:

http://www.usability.vt.edu/publications

The taxonomy of usability characteristics is located directly at:

http://iwb.sv.vt.edu/publications/framework97.pdf

joe

At 08:26 AM 8/12/2003 -0400, Doug Bowman wrote:

Debby Hix and Joe Gabbard are still here at Virginia Tech, working on usability engineering for VEs. The guidelines work you mention was Joe's MS thesis, but I can't find it online right now (perhaps Joe can point you to it).

I will also point out guidelines work by Kulwinder Kaur in the UK (mostly for desktop VEs), and by myself (see e.g. my chapter in the Handbook of Virtual Environments). Finally, a good source of 3D UI guidelines are the course notes from the SIGGRAPH 2000 and 2001 courses by Joe LaViola, Ivan Poupyrev, Ernst Kruijff, and myself.

--Doug

On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 06:28 PM, Jerry Isdale wrote:

Some excellent ground work for interaction was the work of Joe Gabbard and Debbie Hix on Usability of Virtual Environments, circa 1996-99.
There was a volumnious handbook of guidelines they generated for a variety of situations/devices/tasks (ONR grant).
Alas my links for that work are no longer functional although cite-seer still contains some references to the published papers although these links are also unresponsive today.
.
Doug Bowman - they were last seen in your vacinity (VT). Any pointers?
Are you out there Joe? Debbie? Are your papers still on the web?

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