Towards a model for predicting intention in 3D moving-target selection tasks

  • Authors:
  • Juan Sebastián Casallas;James H. Oliver;Jonathan W. Kelly;Frédéric Merienne;Samir Garbaya

  • Affiliations:
  • Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa and Institut Image, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Chalon-sur-Saône, France;Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa;Virtual Reality Applications Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa and Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa;Institut Image, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Chalon-sur-Saône, France;Institut Image, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Chalon-sur-Saône, France

  • Venue:
  • EPCE'13 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: understanding human cognition - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Novel interaction techniques have been developed to address the difficulties of selecting moving targets. However, similar to their static-target counterparts, these techniques may suffer from clutter and overlap, which can be addressed by predicting intended targets. Unfortunately, current predictive techniques are tailored towards static-target selection. Thus, a novel approach for predicting user intention in moving-target selection tasks using decision-trees constructed with the initial physical states of both the user and the targets is proposed. This approach is verified in a virtual reality application in which users must choose, and select between different moving targets. With two targets, this model is able to predict user choice with approximately 71% accuracy, which is significantly better than both chance and a frequentist approach.