{"title":"Visual gesture interfaces for virtual environments","authors":"Rochelle O'Hagan, A. Zelinsky, S. Rougeaux","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822069","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual environments provide a whole new way of viewing and manipulating 3D data. Current technology moves the images out of desktop monitors and into the space immediately surrounding the user. Users can literally put their hands on the virtual objects. Unfortunately techniques for interacting with such environments have yet to mature. Gloves and sensor based trackers are unwieldy, constraining and uncomfortable to use. A natural, more intuitive method of interaction would be to allow the user to grasp objects with their hands and manipulate them as if they were real objects. We are investigating the use of computer vision in implementing a natural interface based on hand gestures. A framework for a gesture recognition system is introduced along with results of experiments in colour segmentation, feature extraction and template matching for finger and hand tracking and hand pose recognition. Progress in the implementation of a gesture interface for navigation and object manipulation in virtual environments is discussed.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131204066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"User interfaces for lightweight in-line editing of Web pages","authors":"M. Rees","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822071","url":null,"abstract":"In 1990, the earliest Web browser allowed the person reading a Web page to edit and save that page-the early Web provided fully collaborative pages. Mosaic, the browser that popularized the Web in 1993, allowed pages to be viewed and not changed. It took several more years before fully collaborative Web pages were available once more using specialized page sharing pages and servers. However, the user interfaces for these shared editing Web page systems are complex. When several users share the creation and editing of a Web page it is rare that each user requires full editing control over the whole page. Rather, the page originator usually sets the basic structure for the page, and collaborating authors fill in the detail to the structure. Synchronization and user interface design to support such a 'fill-in' process are much simpler to implement. The paper refers to such collaborative page construction as lightweight in-line editing. Examples of some existing user interface designs for the lightweight in-line editing are shown and discussed. The paper concludes with the author's own lightweight in-line editing system, Pardalote, which is under development. The Pardalote user interface design that employs new Web page components is presented.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131722358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WAP enabling existing HTML applications","authors":"M. Metter, R. Colomb","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822065","url":null,"abstract":"Already-existing HTML applications can be converted into WML (Wireless Markup Language) applications for use on WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) enabled devices, yet this process is not as simple as the alteration of the markup tags. This paper investigates the problems associated with the conversion process by examining the conversion of a functional information system that would be of benefit to its users when access from remote locations is required. This paper derails a number of problems discovered with the conversion of complex HTML documents into simplified WML documents. The major problems of displaying tabulated data, hyperlinks, navigational aids and user input are discussed, with possible solutions presented. The paper concludes by raising the issue of 'intelligent' automated HTML-to-WML conversion, a topic for future research.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125371941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The metaphor of the face as an interface for communicating non-quantitative information","authors":"S. Simoff, F. Sudweeks","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822073","url":null,"abstract":"We propose that a metaphor can be used to represent domains that are not easily quantifiable. Formal representation of the metaphor then can be used as a user interface to communicate information about those domains between the human and the computer at a cognitive and visual level. We propose a model which uses the metaphor of a human face as an interface data formatting system for the perception and evaluation of universal aesthetics.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129566977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Activity breakdowns in QuickTime Virtual Reality environments","authors":"Brian E. Norris, William B. L. Wong","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822068","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research into virtual environments has identified difficulties that users have in navigating and searching for objects within a QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) environment. Through the use of activity theory, the location and size of QTVR hotspots were identified as causing a breakdown between what the user expected to happen and what actually happened. This subsequently caused a focus shift from within the environment, out to the interface tool in order to try and overcome this breakdown. These breakdowns were the result of the environment design process. Careful planning of the environment is needed to greatly reduce these breakdowns.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122216882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing adaptable user interfaces for component-based systems","authors":"J. Grundy, J. Hosking","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822060","url":null,"abstract":"Developing software components with user interfaces that can be adapted to diverse reuse situations is challenging. Examples of such adaptations include extending, composing and reconfiguring multiple-component user interfaces, and adapting component user interfaces to particular user preferences, roles and subtasks. We describe our recent work in facilitating such adaptation via the concept of \"user interface aspects\", which facilitate effective component user interface design and realisation using an extended component-based software architecture.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129059510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stepping into cooperative buildings","authors":"S. Kaplan, G. Fitzpatrick, M. Docherty","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822062","url":null,"abstract":"If we are stepping out of windows (of the GUI kind), what are we stepping into? We suggest it is into cooperative buildings. For the foreseeable future, at least, we can identify two major characteristics of the cooperative building. The spaces of the building will be augmented in various ways, providing an ambient environment that bridges spatial discontinuities in workgroups and provides a continuous window into the state of the virtual world. Secondly, the ways in which the spaces themselves are used will evolve to be more congruent with the fluid, dynamic and distributed nature of the work taking place in the building. These two characteristics are deeply interconnected. This evolution need not happen entirely in the physical world; the essence of a cooperative building will become the way in which it mixes both physical and virtual affordances to support the workaday activities of its inhabitants.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133462944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring visualisations through subspace composition","authors":"Rajehndra Nagappan","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822067","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a method for exploring visualisations of complex data by considering them as compositions of smaller, simpler structural elements. Subspaces of data are mapped into simple visualisation constructs that each represent a number of well-defined tasks on the data. The visualisation elements and their associations form a map that is used to assist navigation through the data space. The approach is illustrated by a number of examples that visualise complex data sets.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114534687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BUS: a Browser based User interface Service for Web based applications","authors":"Michael Sweeney","doi":"10.1109/AUIC.2000.822074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUIC.2000.822074","url":null,"abstract":"The growing complexity of Web based applications have uncovered software engineering problems in developing and maintaining these systems. The current Web application development and maintenance environment lacks the architectural models that are used in the development of other systems. The paper introduces a Browser User-interface Service (BUS) that offers an object oriented presentation language to build custom Web user interfaces that dynamically connect to application components. The components are able to reuse HTML, Javascript, and stylesheet content using prototype inheritance and dynamically bind presentation objects with data supplied in XML format. The BUS is designed to be platform, Web server, and browser independent, and use XML messages on TCP sockets to communicate with distributed application component processes. The BUS is a flexible component that is intended to improve consistency and flexibility in Web interface design and application maintenance. The BUS is also an integration component that can connect a custom user interface to multiple distributed application components.","PeriodicalId":310955,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125754826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}