WiELD-CAVE: Wireless ergonomic lightweight device for use in the CAVE

Issue title: Special Supplement Issue in Section A and B: Selected Papers from the ISCA International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, 2009

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Hegie, Joshua M. | Kimmel, Andrew S. | Parian, Kelvin H. | Dascalu, Sergiu M. | Harris, Jr., Frederick C.

Affiliations: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N. Virginia St., Reno, NV, USA. Tel.: +1 775 784 6974; Fax: +1 775 784 1877; E-mail: jhegie@cse.unr.edu, akimmel@cse.unr.edu, kelvinp@cse.unr.edu, dascalus@cse.unr.edu, Fred.Harris@cse.unr.edu

Abstract: The goal of this project was to design a wireless input device for the CAVE virtual reality environment. The current solutions for this problem are not adequate, due to their high cost and wired nature. By eliminating these two problems, this team aimed to develop a more widely useable device that incorporates all of the functionality that other solutions have included, and more. For ease of use, the device is housed inside a pair of gloves and is capable of wirelessly communicating with the CAVE. The software driver that accompanies the device allows users to define a series of hand gestures, which are then mapped to either a button press in software – essentially, this allows users to manipulate the CAVE using only their hands and this device. Hopefully, the applications of this device will eventually expand beyond the researchers' interests to the general public.

Keywords: CAVE, input device, wireless, glove

DOI: 10.3233/JCM-2010-0277

Journal: Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, vol. 10, no. s2, pp. S177-S186, 2010