In this tech-note we demonstrate how multi-touch hand gestures in combination with foot gestures can be used to perform navigation tasks in interactive 3D environments. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are well suited as a complex testbed for evaluation of user interfaces based on multi-modal input. Recent developments in the area of interactive surfaces enable the construction of lowcost multi-touch displays and relatively inexpensive sensor technology to detect foot gestures, which allows to explore these input modalities for virtual reality environments. In this tech-note, we describe an intuitive 3D user interface metaphor and corresponding hardware, which combine multi-touch hand and foot gestures for interaction with spatial data.

@inproceedings{VSBH10,
  author = {Valkov, Dimitar and Steinicke, Frank and Bruder, Gerd and Hinrichs, Klaus H.},
  title = {A Multi-Touch enabled Human-Transporter Metaphor for Virtual 3D Traveling},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI)},
  pages = {79--82},
  year = {2010},
  publisher = {IEEE Press},
  note = {(acceptance rate 25\%)},
  keywords = {VR, iMUTS},
  url = {http://viscg.uni-muenster.de/publications/2010/VSBH10},
}