Enhanced Hand Manipulation Methods for Efficient and Precise Positioning and Release of Virtual Objects

  • Authors:
  • Noritaka Osawa

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEICE - Transactions on Information and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Automatic adjustment methods for efficient, precise positioning and release of a virtual 3D object by direct hand manipulation in an immersive virtual reality environment are described and evaluated. The proposed methods are release adjustment, position adjustment, viewpoint adjustment, and virtual hand size adjustment. Combining these methods enables users to manipulate a virtual object efficiently and precisely. An experimental evaluation showed that these methods were effective and useful in terms of the number of task completions and the subjective preference, particularly for a small virtual target.