Title
Evaluation of Text Selection Techniques in Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Displays
Abstract
Text selection is an essential activity in interactive systems, including virtual reality (VR) head-mounted displays (HMDs). It is useful for: sharing information across apps or platforms, highlighting and making notes while reading articles, and text editing tasks. Despite its usefulness, the space of text selection interaction is underexplored in VR HMDs. In this research, we performed a user study with 24 participants to investigate the performance and user preference of six text selection techniques (Controller+Dwell, Controller+Click, Head+Dwell, Head+Click, Hand+Dwell, Hand+Pinch). Results reveal that Head+Click is ranked first since it has excellent speedaccuracy performance (2nd fastest task completion speed with 3rd lowest total error rate), provides the best user experience, and produces a very low workload—followed by Controller+Click, which has the fastest speed and comparable experience with Head+Click, but much higher total error rate. Other methods can also be useful depending on the goals of the system or the users. As a first systematic evaluation of pointing $\times$ selection techniques for text selection in VR, the results of this work provide a strong foundation for further research in this area of growing importance to the future of VR to help it become a more ubiquitous and pervasive platform.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ISMAR55827.2022.00027
2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Text Selection,Virtual Reality,Pointing Methods,Selection Mechanisms,User Study,Human-centered computing,Human computer interaction (HCI),Interaction paradigms,Virtual reality, Human-centered computing,interaction techniques, Human-centered computing,Interaction design,Empirical studies in interaction design
Conference
1554-7868
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-6654-5326-4
1
0.35
References 
Authors
35
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wenge Xu120.69
Xuanru Meng210.35
Kangyou Yu321.03
Sayan Sacar410.35
Hai-Ning Liang519837.97