3D Selection Vault

Voodoo Dolls

Two-handed technique that creates small hand-held copies ('dolls') of distant objects to select and manipulate them at multiple scales.

How it works

The user pinches an object through the image plane to create a doll of it, then holds and moves dolls with both hands; changes to the doll apply to the full-size object.

Papers

• Jeffrey S. Pierce, Brian C. Stearns, Randy Pausch (1999). Voodoo Dolls: Seamless Interaction at Multiple Scales in Virtual Environments. Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (I3D) doi:10.1145/300523.300540
• Jaemoon Jung, Hanjun Park, Dongwook Hwang, Minseok Son, Donghyun Beck, Juhee Park, Woojin Park (2014). A Review on Interaction Techniques in Virtual Environments. Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management link
• Difeng Yu, Tilman Dingler, Eduardo Velloso, Jorge Goncalves (2024). Object Selection and Manipulation in VR Headsets: Research Challenges, Solutions, and Success Measurements. ACM Computing Surveys doi:10.1145/3706417
• Douglas A. Bowman (1999). Interaction Techniques for Common Tasks in Immersive Virtual Environments: Design, Evaluation, and Application. PhD thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology link
• Doug A. Bowman, Ernst Kruijff, Joseph J. LaViola Jr., Ivan Poupyrev (2004). 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice. Addison-Wesley, Boston (ISBN 0-201-75867-9)