Ji-Sun Kim, Denis Gracanin, Kresimir Matkovic, Francis Quek
Finger Walking in Place (FWIP): a Traveling Technique in Virtual Environments
In Proceedings of SmartGraphics 2008, Springer LNCS 5166/2008. August 2008.
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@inproceedings{Kim-2008_FWIP, title = "Finger Walking in Place (FWIP): a Traveling Technique in Virtual Environments", author = "Ji-Sun Kim and Denis Gracanin and Kresimir Matkovic and Francis Quek", year = "2008", abstract = "In this paper we present a Finger Walking in Place (FWIP) interaction technique that allows a user to travel in a virtual world as her/his bare ¯ngers slide on a multi-touch sensitive surface. Traveling is basically realized by translating and rotating the user's viewpoint in the virtual world. The user can translate and rotate a viewpoint by mov- ing her/his ¯ngers in place. Currently, our FWIP technique can be used to navigate in a plane but it can be extended to navigate in the third axis, so that the user can move to any direction in a 3D virtual world. Since our FWIP technique only uses bare ¯ngers and a multi-touch de- vice, ¯nger motions are not precisely detected, especially compared with the use of data gloves or similar sensing devices. However, our experi- ments show that FWIP can be used as a novel traveling technique even without accurate motion detection. Our experiment tasks include ¯nding and reaching the target(s) with FWIP, and the participants successfully completed the tasks. The experiments illustrate our e®orts to make the FWIP technique robust as a scaled-down walking-in-place locomotion technique, so that it can be used as a reliable traveling technique.", month = aug, booktitle = "Proceedings of SmartGraphics 2008, Springer LNCS 5166/2008", isbn = "978-3-540-85410-4", issn = "0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)", location = "Rennes, France", publisher = "Springer", series = "LNCS", keywords = "Virtual environments, Finger-walking, Navigation, Traveling techniques, Multi-touch device", URL = "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2008/Kim-2008_FWIP/", }
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