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Navigation for the Senses

Navigation depends on the functionality of the interface. Metaphors of navigation are building the tools for it and vice versa. The first step in this task is to create an interface environment connecting inter-actors to the system. The sensation of the body will transform a given virtual environment into a field of emotion. Instinctive interfaces will support several senses of the body. The level of transformation and deconstruction depends on a variety of matters: distance and approach, speed of movement, skin temperature, gesture based tracking, camera tracking as a series of parameters to influence the virtual surrounding. The goal is to realize a virtual chamber of awareness and sensitivity to real people in order to develop a natural relation to rigid I/O systems. Elements of the interaction like body balance, body movement or gesture expression are basic elements of human performance in space. As a body centered platform the Virtual Balance system will be discussed. Conceptually the Virtual Balance will be further developed as an input and navigation device for two users at different places. As a result of evaluation of the Virtual Balance a catalog of features was worked out. Major technical solutions could be developed and implemented in the second year of eRENA.

navigation; interaction; interface; virtual environment; video tracking; body balance; electric field sensors; virtual balance; theremin

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