Preference Between Allocentric and Egocentric 3D Manipulation in a Locally Coupled Configuration

Paul Issartel (1, 2) , Lonni Besançon (2, 3) , Florimond Guéniat (1) , Tobias Isenberg (3) , Mehdi Ammi (2, 1)

1 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur
2 UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11
3 AVIZ - Analysis and Visualization

We study user preference between allocentric and egocentric 3D manipulation on mobile devices, in a configuration where the motion of the device is applied to an object displayed on the device itself. We first evaluate this preference for translations and for rotations alone, then for full 6-DOF manipulation. We also investigate the role of contextual cues by performing this experiment in different 3D scenes. Finally, we look at the specific influence of each manipulation axis. Our results provide guidelines to help interface designers select an appropriate default mapping in this locally coupled configuration.

Mots clés: Control-Display mappings; Mobile devices; 3D Interaction

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Paul Issartel, Lonni Besançon, Florimond Guéniat, Tobias Isenberg, Mehdi Ammi. Preference Between Allocentric and Egocentric 3D Manipulation in a Locally Coupled Configuration. ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, ACM, Oct 2016, Tokyo, Japan. ⟨10.1145/2983310.2985750⟩. ⟨hal-01373269⟩