Title
A Study on the Size of Tangible Organ-shaped Controllers for Exploring Medical Data in VR
Abstract
BSTRACT Virtual reality (VR) is, by nature, excellent in showing spatial relationships, e.g. for viewing medical 3D data. In this work, we propose a VR system to view and manipulate medical 3D images of livers in combination with 3D printed liver models as controllers. We investigate whether users benefit from a controller in the shape of a liver and if the size matters by using three different sizes (50 %, 75 %, 100 %). In a user study with 14 surgeons, we focused on presence, workload and qualitative feedback such as preference. While neither size differences nor the VIVE tracker as control resulted in significant differences, most surgeons preferred the 75 % model. Qualitative results indicate that high similarity of physical and virtual objects regarding shape and a focus on good manageability of the physical object is more important than providing an exact replica in size.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3411763.3451594
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Medical Imaging, Image Navigation, Spatial Interaction, Virtual Reality, VR, 3D printing, 3D Model, User Study, Interview, Surgery
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anke Verena Reinschlüssel102.03
Thomas Muender243.83
Tanja Döring319122.03
Verena N. Uslar411.37
Thomas Lück501.01
Dirk Weyhe611.71
Andrea Schenk731031.12
Rainer Malaka849392.68