A generation and customization method for constructing a 3D GUI for SCADA

Recently, high-quality 3D graphics have become available at low cost. A number of attempts have been made to visualize information in a very large system by using 3D graphics. However, the development of a 3D graphical user interface system requires greater cost than that of a 2D graphical user interface system. To solve this problem, we propose an effective method to easily construct a 3D graphical user interface for SCADA. Then we demonstrate the advantages of the 3D graphical user interfaces constructed by our method through user experiments. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn, 94(7): 53–63, 2011; Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI 10.1002/ecj.10221