title: Cubby: a unified interaction space for precision manipulation.
abstract: Precision manipulation in surgical simulation poses special requirements on a VR system. One such requirement is unification, i.e. that the user manipulates a virtual object where it appears. We have designed Cubby, a system of which the visualization part was presented at MMVR97 [3], for precision manipulation and unification. In an experiment Cubby was compared with a single screen head-tracked display, both in a unified and a non-unified version. The results show that subjects could manipulate virtual objects in Cubby with significantly higher accuracy and preferred it to the single screen head-tracked display. Though no significant difference in accuracy between the unified and non-unified conditions could be shown, subjects did prefer the unified over the non-unified condition within both setups.
authors.affiliation: ID-StudioLab, Department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 9, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Djajadiningrat
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Stappers
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Overbeeke
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D005246:Feedback; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D013525:Surgical Instruments; D014584:User-Computer Interface