Navigating the Space: Evaluating a 3D-Input Device in Placement and Docking Tasks

Published: July 3, 2011, 10:19 p.m.

We present a study investigating the performance in a 3D object manipulation task with a mouse and a dedicated input device (SpaceNavigator). Previous research delivered ambiguous results about the performance in different 3D tasks. Therefore we used placement (only translation) as well as docking (translation and rotation) tasks.