Key Contribution

1985

A three-dimensional computer graphics workstation
J D Waldern and E A Edmonds, in Scrivener (editor), Professional Workstations State of the Art Report, Pergamon Press, Oxford, pp.71-79.

ABSTRACT

Interaction with representations of solid, surface or wire-frame models is an aspect of MMI design which has hitherto proved difficult to accomplish satisfactorily. For instance, input methods which describe motion or user instructions to the system, while simultaneously permitting free movement in the immediate environment, have as yet to be implemented successfully. It is argued that the union of several different interface media, necessary to facilitate this complex collection of tasks, might permit a better understanding of fundamental issues related to the problem. It is further argued that only through prototyping such collaboration in flexible MMI exemplars can hypotheses related to 3D interaction be fully tested.