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Evaluation of Docking Task Performance Using Mid-air Interaction Techniques

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Vanessa Vuibert,

Wolfgang Stuerzlinger,

Jeremy R. CooperstockAuthors Info & Claims

SUI '15: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

Pages 44 - 52

https://doi.org/10.1145/2788940.2788950

Published: 08 August 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Mid-air interaction has the potential to manipulate objects in 3D with more natural input mappings. We compared the performance attainable using various mid-air interaction methods with a mechanically constrained input device in a 6 degrees-of-freedom (DoF) docking task in both accuracy and completion time. We found that tangible mid-air input devices supported faster docking performance, while exhibiting accuracy close to that of constrained devices. Interaction with bare hands in mid-air achieved similar time performance and accuracy compared to the constrained device.

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SUI '15: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

August 2015

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ISBN:9781450337038

DOI:10.1145/2788940

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University of Wyoming, USA
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University of Southern California, USA
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University of Hamburg, Germany
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Simon Fraser University, Canada

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