(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996)
Bowman, Douglas A.; Hodges, Larry F.; Bolter, Jay David
We present a virtual reality application that allows users to access embedded information within an immersive virtual environment. Due to the richness and complexity of this environment, interaction between the user and the system requires efficient and easy-to-use techniques. We present tools for user control of the system, travel through the environment, and information retrieval. A usability study and its results are also presented and discussed. The study indicates that the use of symbolic information which is tightly coupled to the virtual environment can be quite successful in enhancing the relevance of both the environment and the information. Results also indicate that the set of well-constrained interaction techniques presented here are usable and efficient for information retrieval.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995)
Bolter, Jay David; Hodges, Larry F.; Meyer, Thomas C.; Nichols, Alison
Inside or outside the lab, most current VR aims at reproducing perceptual experience. The goal is to give the user the sensation that he or she is walking along a hallway in a building, flying over a city, or riding in a vehicle. However, if virtual reality is ever going to "break out" into general purpose computing, then it has to provide more than a perceptual experience. It has to reproduce the capabilities of current computers to manipulate symbols as well. Symbol manipulation is an essential part of what computers do in applications ranging from numerical analysis to database management to word processing and communication.
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993)
Hodges, Larry F.; Bolter, Jay David; Mynatt, Elizabeth D.; Ribarsky, William; Van Teylingen, Ron
The Grapics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) Center was established at Georgia Tech in 1991 in recognition of the central importance of these three disciplines to the future growth of computing.
The key emphasis of the GVU Center is effective communication of information between computers and people, as well as use of the computer to facilitate communication between individuals. This is not the domain of a single discipline, but rather draws on many diverse fields. Accordingly, the GVU Center emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to research and education, bringing together 30 faculty and over 100 graduate students from the College of Architecture, School of Civil Engineering, College of Computing, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Office of Information Technology, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, School of Mathematics, Multimedia Technology Lab, and School of Psychology.