Title
Demonstrating TapID for Rapid Touch Interaction on Surfaces in Virtual Reality for Productivity Scenarios
Abstract
ABSTRACT We demonstrate a novel approach to bring quick touch interaction on surfaces to Virtual Reality, which is a challenge for current camera-based VR headsets that support free-hand mid-air interaction or physical hand-held controllers for input. In our approach, we use our wrist-worn prototype TapID to complement the optical hand tracking from VR headsets with inertial sensing to detect touch events on surfaces, which establishes the same interaction modality that is present on today’s phones and tablets. Each TapID band integrates a pair of inertial sensors in a flexible strap, from whose signals TapID reliably detects surface touch events and identifies the finger used for touch. This event detection is then fused with the optically tracked hand poses to trigger input in VR. Our demonstration comprises a series of VR applications, including UI control in word processors, web browsers, and document editors. These applications showcase the beneficial use of rapid tapping, typing, and surface gestures in Virtual Reality.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3411763.3451553
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
touch input, VR, productivity, inertial sensing, neural network
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manuel Meier132.06
Paul Streli201.01
Andreas Rene Fender301.01
Christian Holz487856.58