Immersive Projection Technology and Virtual Environments 2001

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. HCI

   1. Human Factors

      1. Command & Control Cube: a Shortcut Paradigm for Virtual Environments

         • Jérôme Grosjean, Sabine Coquillart

         Pages 1-12

      2. Measuring an Illusion: The Influence of System Performance on Size Perception in Virtual Environments

         • Jan Hofmann, Thomas J. Jäger, Thorben Deffke, Heiner Bubb

         Pages 13-22

      3. Presence — a global media quality metric

         • J. Lessiter, J. Freeman

         Pages 23-30

   2. Interfaces and Interaction

      1. Design review and visualization steering using the INQUISITIVE interaction toolkit

         • L. Sastry, D. R. S. Boyd, M. D. Wilson

         Pages 31-40

      2. On the Utility of Semantic Constraints

         • G. Smith, W. Stuerzlinger

         Pages 41-50

      3. Two-Handed <i>Through</i>-<i>the</i>-<i>Lens</i>-Techniques for Navigation in Virtual Environments

         • Stanislav L. Stoev, Dieter Schmalstieg, Wolfgang Straßer

         Pages 51-60

      4. Spring-Based Manipulation Tools for Virtual Environments

         • Michal Koutek, Frits H. Post

         Pages 61-70

      5. Perception and Mental Rotation of 3D-Freeform Surfaces in an Immersive Projection System

         • Andrea Gaggioli, Ralf Breining

         Pages 71-82

      6. An Investigation into the design of an Interface for Interaction with a Virtual Environment representing a four-dimensional object

         • R. Wellard, S. C. Chapman

         Pages 83-92

3. Application

   1. Engineering

      1. The integration of immersive Virtual Reality applications into Catia V5

         • D. Rantzau, F. Maurer, C. Mayer, R. Löffler, O. Riedel, H. Scharm et al.

         Pages 93-102

      2. COVISE and the Virtual Intuitive Simulation Test bed

         • Andreas Wierse

         Pages 103-108

      3. VIRPI: A High-Level Toolkit for Interactive Scientific Visualization in Virtual Reality

         • Desmond Germans, Hans J. W. Spoelder, Luc Renambot, Henri E. Bal

         Pages 109-120

   2. Education and Entertainment

      1. Interactive Storytelling with Virtual Identities

         • M. Greeff, V. Lalioti

         Pages 121-130

      2. First-Person Science Inquiry ‘in the Field’

         • T. Moher, A. Johnson, Y. Cho, Y. Lin

         Pages 131-140

4. Software

   1. Systems

      1. MAESTRO - a tool for interactive assembly simulation in virtual environments

         • Roland Steffan, Torsten Kuhlen

         Pages 141-152

      2. Spelunking: Experiences using the D<span class="u-small-caps">ive</span> System on CAVE-like Platforms

         • Anthony Steed, Jesper Mortensen, Emmanuel Frécon

         Pages 153-164

      3. Towards a Scalable High Performance Application Platform for Immersive Virtual Environments

         • Matthias Bues, Roland Blach, Simon Stegmaier, Ulrich Häfner, Hilko Hoffmann, Frank Haselberger

         Pages 165-174

   2. Graphics

      1. Remote View-Dependent Rendering

         • Jihad El-Sana

         Pages 175-185

      2. Volume Rendering in a Virtual Environment

         • Jürgen Schulze-Döbold, Uwe Wössner, Steffen P. Walz, Ulrich Lang

         Pages 187-198

17 papers report on the latest scientific advances in the fields of immersive projection technology and virtual environments. The main topics included here are human computer interaction (user interfaces, interaction techniques), software developments (virtual environment applications, rendering techniques), and input/output devices.

• 3D
• Augmented Reality
• CATIA
• Performance
• Virtual Environments
• Virtual Reality
• computer graphics
• rendering
• simulation
• visualization

• Lehrstuhl für Systeme der Virtuellen Realität, Fakultät Medien, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

  Bernd Fröhlich

• Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation IAO, Stuttgart, Germany

  Joachim Deisinger, Hans-Jörg Bullinger

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