Abstract
When new user interfaces or information visualization schemes are developed for complex information processing systems, it is not readily clear how much they do, in fact, support and improve users’ understanding and use of such systems. Is a new interface better than an older one? In what respect, and in which situations? To provide answers to such questions, user testing schemes are employed. This chapter reports on a range of risks pertaining to the design and implementation of user interfaces in general, and to newly emerging interfaces (3-dimensionally, immersive, mobile) in particular.
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Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers.
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Two-dimensional multi-touch surfaces require three degrees of freedom with p=(x,y)T and maximally one rotation angle θ.
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The discussion on user interfaces in this chapter is the result of nearly two decades of work on novel user interfaces related in particular to Augmented Reality. Many people have participated in the work and have influenced the authors in many ways. The authors (particularly the first author) would like to thank the many current and past members of the Fachgebiet Augmented Reality (FAR), as well as the labs at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) and the European Computer-industry Research Centre (ECRC) prior to FAR for sharing and jointly developing many of the ideas. The authors are grateful to many collaborators across a large number of publicly or privately funded research projects, such as TUMMIC, Presenccia, KAUST, Crumbs, FORLOG, Speedup, IGSSE, Trackframe, the Chair for Computer-Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) and the Chair for Applied Software Engineering.
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Klinker, G., Huber, M., Tönnis, M. (2014). Risk Issues in Developing Novel User Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction. In: Klüppelberg, C., Straub, D., Welpe, I. (eds) Risk - A Multidisciplinary Introduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04486-6_15
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