A new approach to human-computer interaction---synchronous modelling in real and virtual spaces
Kai Schäfer, Volker Brauer, Willi Bruns · 1997
Three-dimensional computer-aided modelling of dynamic processes supported by virtual reality techniques like 3D-stereo vision does not reach the usability (ease, concrete-ness, intuitiveness, directness) we experience in modelling with real physical objects. We propose an interface that aims at coupling two previously separated model worlds-the the real space of physical objects and the virtual space of signs and images. The basic issues of this Real Reality concept are discussed and some applications are presented. Keywords real reality, data glove, graspable user interfaces, grasp recognition, modelling and simulation, programming by demonstration