Facilitating system control in ray-based interaction tasks

  • Authors:
  • André Kunert;Alexander Kulik;Christopher Lux;Bernd Fröhlich

  • Affiliations:
  • Bauhaus-Universität Weimar;Bauhaus-Universität Weimar;Bauhaus-Universität Weimar;Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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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.