Title
Text in 3D: some legibility results
Abstract
3D user interfaces for productivity applications often display object labels or whole documents in arrangements where the text is rotated instead of screen aligned. Rotating a document sideways saves screen real estate while allowing inspection of the document's content. This paper reports on an initial reading speed study of text rotated around a vertical axis and manipulated in size. We found that with sufficient rendering quality small text can be substantially rotated before reading performance suffers, and large text legibility is nearly unaffected by rotation. The empirically derived guidelines we present are the first published for 3D text and important for the design of 3D information visualizations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1145/633292.633374
CHI Extended Abstracts
Field
DocType
ISBN
Legibility,Real estate,3d user interface,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Readability,Human–computer interaction,Rendering (computer graphics),User interface,Multimedia
Conference
1-58113-248-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.86
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
kevin p larson162057.47
Maarten van Dantzich256156.85
Mary Czerwinski35028421.65
George Robertson453891448.94