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dc.contributor.supervisorIrani, Pourang (Computer Science)en_US
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Cary
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T15:01:33Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T15:01:33Z
dc.date.issued2011-05-07
dc.identifier.citationCary Williams, Xing Dong Yang, Grant Partridge, Joshua Millar-Usiskin, Arkady Major, and Pourang Irani. 2011. TZee: exploiting the lighting properties of multi-touch tabletops for tangible 3d interactions. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1363-1372. DOI=10.1145/1978942.1979143 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1978942.1979143en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/5219
dc.description.abstractManipulating 3D objects on a tabletop computer is inherently problematic. The flat surface of tabletop computers enable natural 2D interaction, but lack the additional dimension needed to intuitively facilitate 3D object manipulation. In this thesis I present TZee, a passive tangible widget that enables natural interactions with 3D objects by exploiting the lighting properties of diffuse illumination (DI) multi-touch tabletops. The Tangible User Interface (TUI), TZee is constructed from several pieces of stacked acrylic glass. The stacked glass enables TZee to channel the light emitted from the tabletop slightly higher above the surface without major light loss. This technique allows the tangible interface to transmit touches on the device to the tabletop without any supplementary power. TZee enables simple translation, rotation and scaling along the x, y, or z axes. This thesis discusses several important design considerations of TZee, demonstrated TZee’s value though several applications and a gesture design study.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machineryen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subject3den_US
dc.subjectmultitouchen_US
dc.subjecttuien_US
dc.titleTZee: a tangible device for 3d interactions on tabletop computersen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
dc.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeYoung, James (Computer Science) Major, Arkady (Electrical & Computer Engineering)en_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science (M.Sc.)en_US
dc.description.noteMay 2012en_US


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