Paper Info
Title
FTIR-based Touch Pad for Smartphone-based HMD Enhancement.
Abstract
We propose to equip smartphone-based HMDs (SbHMDs) with an additional touch pad. SbHMDs are a low cost approach to allowing users to experience virtual reality (VR). Current SbHMDs, however, provide poor input functionality and sometimes external devices are necessary to enhance the VR experience. Our proposal uses frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) to realize a touch pad on the external surfaces of the HMD case; no special devices are needed. As simple FTIR approaches do not suit SbHMDs due to the spatial relation between camera and light, we design an arrangement of acrylic plates and mirror suitable for smartphone's built-in camera and torch-light. It extends the input vocabulary SbHMDs to include touch location, gestures, and also pressure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3266037.3271641
UIST '18: The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Berlin Germany October, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile HMD,Virtual Reality,frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR)
Virtual reality,Computer science,Gesture,Human–computer interaction,Touchpad,Vocabulary
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5949-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takuya Kitade100.34
Wataru Yamada22915.22
Hiroyuki Manabe39320.31