3D Selection Vault

Hand-in-Middle

Also known as HIM

Two-handed box selection: the box's centre follows the non-dominant hand, and moving the dominant hand towards or away from it shrinks or grows the box.

How it works

The centre of a 3D selection box is attached to the non-dominant hand, which sets its position and orientation; no part of the box is attached to the dominant hand, whose distance from the other hand scales the box. All three techniques shape a 3D selection box with two tracked handheld devices; everything inside the box is selected with the SELECT button. Designed for splat-based volumetric data on a desktop monitor.

Papers

• Amy Ulinski, Catherine Zanbaka, Zachary Wartell, Paula Goolkasian, Larry F. Hodges (2007). Two Handed Selection Techniques for Volumetric Data. IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI), pp. 107–114 doi:10.1109/3DUI.2007.340782