Publications

@inproceedings{galloNaturalInterfaceVirtual2008,

title = {Toward a Natural Interface to Virtual Medical Imaging Environments},

author = { Luigi Gallo and Giuseppe De Pietro and Antonio Coronato and Ivana Marra},

doi = {10.1145/1385569.1385651},

isbn = {978-1-60558-141-5},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-05-01},

booktitle = {AVI '08 Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces},

pages = {429--432},

publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA},

address = {Napoli, Italy},

abstract = {Immersive Virtual Reality environments are suitable to support activities related to medicine and medical practice. The immersive visualization of information-rich 3D objects, coming from patient scanned data, provides clinicians with a clear perception of depth and shapes. However, to benefit from immersive visualization in medical imaging, where inspection and manipulation of volumetric data are fundamental tasks, medical experts have to be able to act in the virtual environment by exploiting their real life abilities. In order to reach this goal, it is necessary to take into account user skills and needs so as to design and implement usable and accessible human-computer interaction interfaces. In this paper we present a natural interface for a semi-immersive virtual environment. Such interface is based on an off-the-shelf handheld wireless device and a speech recognition component, and provides clinicians with intuitive interaction modes for inspecting volumetric medical data.},

keywords = {3D interaction, Medical Imaging, Virtual Reality, VTK, Wireless},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{gallo3DInteractionVolumetric2008,

title = {3D Interaction with Volumetric Medical Data: Experiencing the Wiimote},

author = { Luigi Gallo and Giuseppe De Pietro and Ivana Marra},

doi = {10.4108/ICST.AMBISYS2008.2880},

isbn = {978-963-9799-16-5},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-02-01},

booktitle = {2008 1st International Conference on Ambient Media and Systems (Ambi-Sys)},

pages = {1--6},

publisher = {ICST},

address = {Quebec City, Quebec, Canada},

abstract = {Three-dimensional virtual environments are becoming more and more important for the inspection of volumetric medical data reconstructed from slices of images coming from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computer Tomography (CT), Positron Emission Tomography (PET) instrumentations. The possibility to visualize and interact with three-dimensional reconstructed organs while being immersed into a virtual environment, provides doctors a very naturalistic way to investigate patient's anatomy. However, most 3D user interfaces for immersive and semiimmersive virtual reality applications lack in usability or make not possible a user-friendly interaction. In this paper we present new flavors of existing 3D interaction techniques specifically designed for interacting with volumetric medical data in a semi-immersive virtual environment by using the Nintendo Wiimote controller as 3D user interface.},

keywords = {3D interaction, Healthcare, Manipulation, Pointing, Usability, Virtual Reality, Wireless},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}