School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University

The overall goal of this project was to create a scalable human model software system which could be easily included in any immersive or non immersive graphics application.  This human model was inserted into a MuSE-based environment.  The human model developed for this project has the following characteristics:

Free floating (no inverse kinematics linking of body parts) Scalable to the size of the user Multiple body part tracking configurations

• Quick/Easy calibration of human model to correct for errors in tracking device placement
• Gripping methods to allow for picking up of objects in the virtual environment
• First and Third person viewing options
• Multiple options for human model display
• Mouse controlled drag and drop and rotate

Implementation of the human model was carried out using a prototype crew transportation module as a test case design evaluation environment for the human model.