Interacting with Scientific Visualizations: User-Interface Tools within Spatially Immersive Displays

. User interfaces represent a doorknob to computer applications and directlyrelate to the usability of a given application. The desktop WIMP interfacehas been developed and refined over the past 15 years and works well for thedesktop environment. The question is, What does one do in the case of today'sthree-dimensional immersive environments? Does one translate the desktop toolsto the 3D space, and how does one interact within these spaces? In building numerousimmersive scientific...