An object-centric interaction framework for tangible interfaces in virtual environments
Johann Habakuk Israel, Oliver Belaifa, Adrienne Gispen, Rainer Stark · 2010
The spatial and semantic integration of tangible user interfaces (TUI) into virtual environments is a promising approach to enhance mixed reality-applications with dynamic three-dimensional graphics and graspable controls. Although various software frameworks for virtual reality periphery and tangible interaction exist, a novel framework which provides a high-level TUI-object-centric interface (instead of device-centric interface) and duplex access to important physical properties of TUI-objects, e.g. three-dimensional position, sensor states, force actuators could foster the development of such mixed-reality applications.