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Text Entry Method for Immersive Virtual Environments Using Curved Keyboard

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Naoki Yanagihara,

Buntarou Shizuki,

Shin TakahashiAuthors Info & Claims

VRST '19: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

Article No.: 116, Pages 1 - 2

https://doi.org/10.1145/3359996.3365026

Published: 12 November 2019 Publication History

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In this paper, we introduce a curved QWERTY keyboard, bent spherically in front of the user, to facilitate 3D word-gesture text entry in immersive virtual environments. Using the curved keyboard, the number of candidate words in the 3D word-gesture text entry is reduced compared with that using a planar keyboard. In the pilot study, the text entry performance of the first author was 21.0 WPM (SD = 5.06), with a total error rate of 26.0% (SD = 15.2).

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VRST '19: Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

November 2019

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ISBN:9781450370011

DOI:10.1145/3359996

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Western Sydney University
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Western Sydney University
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Macquarie University
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