Design and evaluation of alphabetic and numeric input methods
for virtual reality

J 2024

Design and evaluation of alphabetic and numeric input methods for virtual reality

KUŤÁK, David, Danielle Kathryn LANGLOIS, Roman ROZIČ, Jan BYŠKA, Haichao MIAO et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Design and evaluation of alphabetic and numeric input methods for virtual reality

Authors

KUŤÁK, David, Danielle Kathryn LANGLOIS, Roman ROZIČ, Jan BYŠKA, Haichao MIAO, Simone KRIGLSTEIN and Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ

Edition

Computers & Graphics, Elsevier, 2024, 0097-8493

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10200 1.2 Computer and information sciences

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.500 in 2022

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2024.103955

Keywords in English

Virtual reality, Head-mounted displays, User evaluation, Alphabetic input, Numeric input, Alphanumeric input, Virtual keyboards

Abstract

V originále

In today’s virtual reality (VR), users have various ways to influence their VR experience, including alphanumeric input. While typing characters and numbers is straightforward on desktop computers, it presents challenges and opportunities in head-mounted display VR due to specific interaction methods and a lack of real-world visual stimuli. Addressing these open questions, our work implements and evaluates ten approaches to alphabetic and numeric inputs in VR. We describe the design motivation behind these input methods and evaluate them in a user study with 40 participants divided into groups for alphabetic and numeric keyboards. This comparison investigates each method’s performance and user interactions. Our findings suggest that different input methods significantly impact words per minute and error rates, and that certain keyboard designs may receive better subjective evaluations despite poorer objective performance.

Links

MUNI/A/1590/2023, interní kód MU

Name: Využití technik umělé inteligence pro zpracování dat, komplexní analýzy a vizualizaci rozsáhlých dat

Investor: Masaryk University, Using artificial intelligence techniques for data processing, complex analysis and visualization of large-scale data

Citovat

KUŤÁK, David, Danielle Kathryn LANGLOIS, Roman ROZIČ, Jan BYŠKA, Haichao MIAO, Simone KRIGLSTEIN and Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ. Design and evaluation of alphabetic and numeric input methods for virtual reality. Computers & Graphics. Elsevier, 2024. ISSN 0097-8493. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2024.103955.

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KUŤÁK, David, Danielle Kathryn LANGLOIS, Roman ROZIČ, Jan BYŠKA, Haichao MIAO, Simone KRIGLSTEIN and Barbora KOZLÍKOVÁ. Design and evaluation of alphabetic and numeric input methods for virtual reality. \textit{Computers \&{}amp; Graphics}. Elsevier, 2024. ISSN~0097-8493. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2024.103955.

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