Indicative contents

Weightage @ 10% Each

• Introduction to 3D UI – History, Roadmap, Terminologies, Application areas etc.
  
• Input Devices – Trackers, Navigators, Manipulators, Gesture Interfaces etc.
  
• Output Devices - Visual, Auditory, Haptic Feedback Devices etc
  
• Selection & Manipulation – 3D Manipulation tasks, Interaction, Selection, Design etc.
  
• Travel & Wayfinding – 3D Travel, Exploration, User & Environment wayfinding etc.
  
• System Control – Graphical Menus, Voice & Gestural Commands, Tools etc.
  
• Symbolic Input – Scenarios, Features, Symbolic Input Tasks & Techniques etc.
  
• Designing & Developing – Strategies, Designing for humans, Inventing 3D UI etc.
  
• Evaluation – Background, Evaluation Metrics, Characteristics & Classification etc.
  
• User Interfaces for Augmented Reality – Augmented surfaces & Tangible interfaces etc.

Module Resources

• Essential reading
  1. Course notes
• Recommended Reading
  1. Doug A Bowman, Ernst Kruiff, Joseph J Laviola, Ivan Poupyrev, 3D User Interface: Theory and Practice, 1st edition, Addison Wesley, 2004.
     
  2. Gerard Jounghyun Kim, Designing Virtual Reality Systems: The Structured Approach, 1st edition, Springer,2005.
     
  3. Grigore Burdea, Philippe Coiffet, Virtual Reality Technology, 1st edition, Wiley InterSence, 2003.
     
  4. Reinhold Behringer, Gudrun Klinker, David W Mizell, Augmented Reality Placing Artificial Objects in Real Scenes, 1st edition, A K Peter, 1999.
     
  5. William Sherman, Craig, Alan B, Understanding Virtual Reality Interface, Application and Design, 1st edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003.
• Journals
  
  • Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, Elsevier
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier
• Magazines, Transactions & Proceedings

1. Interactions, Association for Computing Machinery
2. Conference/Workshop/Symposium Proceedings, Eurographics

• Internet Sites

1. www.chi-sa.org.za
2. www.useit.com

• Laboratory
  • Hardware:
    2.8 GHz P4 Computers with 1 GB RAM & 256 MB Graphics Card
    HP Workstation: 2Core-2Processor AMD, 4GB RAM, 512 MB Graphics Card
    Infocus-DepthQ 3D Stereo Projector with Rear Projection Screen NuVision 60GX LCD Shutter Glasses with Emitters for Stereo Vision.
    5DT 3D Stereo HMD with 800x600svga 26FOV LCOS & Headphone
    InterSense InertiaCube 3 DOF Inertia Head Tracker for HMD.
    Polhemus Fastrack 6DOF Tracking System with Long Range Transmitter
    NoDNA X-IST Gloves with 5 Pressure, 5 Data, 2 Rotation sensors
    Inition’s 3DiStick navigator with 6DOF Magnetic sensor
    Logitech’s Space Pilot the 6DOF 3D mouse for desktop navigation
    Creative’s 5.1 Channel Audio system
  • Software:
    OpenGL, Quest3D, VTK
  • Software Manual:
    OpenGL Documentation
    Quest3D Programming Guide, Tutorials
    VTK Programming Guide, Reference Manual
    Respective manuals for VR Input – Output Devices