Facilitating System Control in Ray-based Interaction Tasks

Facilitating system control in ray-based interaction tasks

Abstract

This paper investigates the usability of tracked wands equipped
with additional input sensors for system control tasks in 3D interaction
scenarios. We integrated a thumb-operated circular touchpad
into a hand-held wand and compared the performance of our input
device to common ray-based interaction in a menu selection and
parameter adjustment task. The results show that both interfaces
can be highly efficient, but ray-based interaction is only competitive
if large-sized graphical interface representations are provided.
In contrast, touchpad input performs well independent of the size of
the graphical elements due to proprioceptive and tactile feedback.

Documents and Papers

Kunert, A., Kulik, A., Lux, C., and Fröhlich, B.
Facilitating system control in ray-based interaction tasks
In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (Kyoto, Japan, November 18 - 20, 2009).
S. N. Spencer, Ed. VRST '09. ACM, New York, NY, 183-186.
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