Interaction

Goal

Provide an overview of challenges of 3D user interface design and how to approach 3DUI R&D, focussing primarily on 3D interaction for virtual environments.

Contents

• 3D UI Design
  • Navigation
  • Selection and manipulation
  • System control
  • 2D interaction in 3D environments
  • Design methodolody
  • 3D UI research
• User Interaction in jMonkeyEngine
  • Controls
  • Application States
  • InputManager
  • Picking
• Code examples

Literature

Lecture slides/notes.

Tutorial (8) - Hello Picking.

Mouse Picking.

Application States.

Camera documentation: 1, 2.

Recommended further reading:

• Doug Bowman's 3DUI.org site.There is some excellent course material available to download on this site from courses held at the ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGCHI conferences. This material goes into more detail than we can in a single lecture, and also presents some of the challenges related to 3D input and 3D user interfaces beyond virtual reality type applications.

Assignment

Start looking into the main course assignment. Some models that you can use can be extracted from this zip-file: models.zip