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Evaluation of Disambiguation Mechanisms of Object-Based Selection in Virtual Environment: Which Performances and Features to Support "Pick Out"?

Authors:

Zouhair Serrar,

Nabil Elmarzouqi,

Jean-Christophe LapayreAuthors Info & Claims

Interacción '14: Proceedings of the XV International Conference on Human Computer Interaction

Article No.: 29, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2662253.2662282

Published: 10 September 2014 Publication History

Abstract

A 3D object selection technique is an essential building part of interactive virtual environment system. This ability to choose which object is the target for subsequent actions precedes any further behavior. Selection mechanism as part of manipulation process in a virtual environment is performed using different techniques. Furthermore, many problems make selection a difficult task and contribute to target ambiguity that leads users to select wrong objects by mistake. Therefore, disambiguation mechanisms have been proposed in the literature to solve target ambiguity. In this paper, we present an evaluation study of selection techniques that support disambiguation mechanisms.

We performed a comparative study of 4 selection techniques including disambiguation mechanisms: Ray-Casting, Depth Ray, SQUAD and Shadow Cone. We developed an automated test environment where we varied scene density and measured the performance of each selection technique. Our goal was to measure the velocity of each technique, its sensitivity to occlusion, how much navigation it required and how far it could select targets. We found that discrete progressive refinement used in SQUAD was the fastest solution when user acts in a scene containing few objects to select. We also found that techniques that augment the pointing metaphor by using a 3D cursor, such as Depth Ray and SQUAD, performed better than ray casting itself or cone casting.

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Evaluation of Disambiguation Mechanisms of Object-Based Selection in Virtual Environment: Which Performances and Features to Support "Pick Out"?
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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Interacción '14: Proceedings of the XV International Conference on Human Computer Interaction

September 2014

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DOI:10.1145/2662253

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Bashar MBatmaz A(2024)Virtual Task Environments Factors Explored in 3D Selection StudiesProceedings of the 50th Graphics Interface Conference10.1145/3670947.3670983(1-16)Online publication date: 3-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3670947.3670983
Lu YGao BTu HWu HXin WCui HLuo WDuh H(2022)Effects of physical walking on eyes-engaged target selection with ray-casting pointing in virtual realityVirtual Reality10.1007/s10055-022-00677-927:2(603-625)Online publication date: 2-Aug-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-022-00677-9
Lu YYu CShi Y(2020)Investigating Bubble Mechanism for Ray-Casting to Improve 3D Target Acquisition in Virtual Reality2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)10.1109/VR46266.2020.1581165829725(35-43)Online publication date: Mar-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/VR46266.2020.1581165829725

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