Authors:
Iván Rodríguez
1
;
Celso Campos
1
;
Enrique Barreiro
1
;
Rocío Veiga
2
and
Jorge Vázquez
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Vigo, Spain
;
2
Redegal S.L., Spain
Keyword(s):
Procedural Modelling, CAD, Multi-touch Devices, Natural Interaction, Rapid Prototyping, Closets.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Interactive 3D Graphics for Mobile Devices Like Smartphones, PDAs and UMPCs
;
Interactive Environments
;
Mobile Interfaces
Abstract:
Custom closets customers usually lack the expertise to design their desired closet. The use of a software tool
that incorporates the design expertise might allow them to sketch their ideas without third party oversight.
While architecture related applications are very powerful and make it possible to have an accurate graphical
representation of real world, these Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools demand high technical training and
their use in the engineering field is generic. Our work, framed within the development of a rapid prototyping
tool of custom closets called Sketch Arm, introduces an interaction proposal that seeks to minimize the time
and complexity associated with typical operations in CAD. Supported by multi-touch capabilities of today’s
mobile devices, our system allows users to manipulate the closet structure directly in real time by using a
minimalist graphical user interface (GUI) together with a touch interface based on easily recognizable gesture
patterns. Direct on
-screen data manipulation is very attractive to the end-user in general and highly beneficial
for novice IT users in particular while gesture-based interaction is extremely intuitive for performing artistic
tasks. Throughout the article, we will describe in depth the designed interaction system and we will present
the original solutions we made to common problems in touch systems like accuracy and occlusion.
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