This project presents our solution to the IEEE VR 2024 3DUI contest. We present The Alchemist, a VR experience tailored to aid children in practicing and mastering the four fundamental mathematical operators. In The Alchemist, players embark on a fantastical journey where they must prepare three potions to break a malevolent curse imprisoning the Gobbler kingdom. Our contributions include the development of a novel number input interface, Pinwheel, an extension of PizzaText, as well as four novel gestures, each corresponding to a distinct mathematical operator, designed to assist children in retaining practice with these operations. Preliminary tests indicate that Pinwheel and the four associated gestures facilitate the quick and efficient execution of mathematical operations.
Operator gestures in the real world and within the virtual environment: (A1-2) Controller separation subtraction gesture. (B1-B2) Controller merge addition gesture. (C1-C2) Controller cross multiplication gesture. (D1-D2) Controller slice division gesture.
Proceedings Articles
Logan Lane; Alexander Giovannelli; Ibrahim Tahmid; Francielly Rodrigues; Cory Ilo; Darren Hsu; Christos Lougiakis; Shakiba Davari; Doug A. Bowman
The Alchemist: A Gesture-Based 3D User Interface for Engaging Arithmetic Calculations Proceedings Article
In: 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), pp. 1106-1107, 2024.
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title = {The Alchemist: A Gesture-Based 3D User Interface for Engaging Arithmetic Calculations},
author = {Logan Lane and Alexander Giovannelli and Ibrahim Tahmid and Francielly Rodrigues and Cory Ilo and Darren Hsu and Christos Lougiakis and Shakiba Davari and Doug A. Bowman},
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year = {2024},
date = {2024-01-01},
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