When the Giant meets the Ant An Asymmetric Approach for Collaborative and Concurrent Object Manipulation in a Multi-Scale Environment

Morgan Le Chénéchal (1) , Jérémy Lacoche (1) , Jérôme Royan (1) , Thierry Duval (2, 3, 1) , Valérie Gouranton (4, 5, 1) , Bruno Arnaldi (5, 4, 1)

1 Hypermedia - Domaine Hypermedia (IRT b<>com)
2 Lab-STICC_TB_CID_IHSEV
3 LUSSI - Département Logique des Usages, Sciences sociales et Sciences de l'Information
4 Hybrid - 3D interaction with virtual environments using body and mind
5 INSA Rennes - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes

In this paper, we propose an innovative approach that enables two or more users to manipulate an object collaboratively. Our goal is to benefits from the wide variety of todays VR devices. Therefore, our solution is based on an asymmetric collaboration pattern at different scales in which users benefit from suited points of views and interaction techniques according to their device setups. Indeed, each user application is adapted thanks to plasticity mechanisms. Our system provides an efficient way to co-manipulate an object within irregular and narrow courses, taking advantages of asymmetric roles in synchronous collaboration. Moreover, its aims to provide a way to maximize the filling of the courses while the object moves on its path.

Mots clés: Collaborative Virtual Environments; Virtual Reality; 3D User Interaction

Domaines: Ordinateur et société [cs.CY]; Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]

Morgan Le Chénéchal, Jérémy Lacoche, Jérôme Royan, Thierry Duval, Valérie Gouranton, et al.. When the Giant meets the Ant An Asymmetric Approach for Collaborative and Concurrent Object Manipulation in a Multi-Scale Environment. 3DCVE 2016 : International Workshop on Collaborative Virtual Environments, Mar 2016, Greenville, United States. pp.1 - 4, ⟨10.1109/3DCVE.2016.7563562⟩. ⟨hal-01293041⟩