Quantitative Design of Spatial Interaction Techniques for Desktop Mixed-Reality Environments

Name Karin Nieuwenhuizen
Advisors Jean-Bernard Martens, Robert van Liere, F.A. Smit, L. Liu and, S. Yin
Website http://www.stack.nl/~cnieuwen

QUASID (Quantitative Spatial Interaction Design) is a multidisciplinary research project, which has the objective to develop a more quantitative approach to the design of interaction techniques and to apply this approach in the design of new interaction techniques for mixed reality desktop environments. The QUASID project combines research on three different levels (constituting three separate PhD projects): 1) methodological level; 2) device level; and 3) system level. The PhD project carried out at the UCE group focuses on the methodological level and is concerned with the development of a testbed that can be used in the evaluation of spatial interaction techniques used in mixed reality desktop systems. This means, among other things, that subjective and objective measures need to be developed as well as a taxonomy for spatial interaction techniques used in mixed reality desktop systems.