Intuitive, Hands-free Travel Interfaces for Virtual Environments
Steffi Beckhaus, Kristopher J. Blom, Matthias Haringer · 2005
Navigation is one of the most important tasks in virtual environments. We present two novel interfaces for navigation, a dance pad based and a chair based interface. Both interfaces are designed to be intuitive to use by novice users and leave the user's hands free for other tasks like object manipulation or system control. In an informal study, both interfaces were immediately usable by novice VE users using a ground following travel metaphor without any prior explanation of how the interface functions. In addition, the chair based interface was found to be highly intuitive, effective, and fun to operate.