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Evaluation of Hands-free Teleportation in VR

Authors:

Aniruddha Prithul,

Jiwan Bhandari,

Walker Spurgeon,

Eelke FolmerAuthors Info & Claims

SUI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

Article No.: 5, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/3565970.3567683

Published: 01 December 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Teleportation is a popular locomotion technique that allows users to navigate beyond the confines of available tracking space with the smallest chance of inducing VR sickness. Users typically specify a teleportation destination by using a hand-held motion-sensing controller. However, for various reasons, it can be desirable or required to have a hands-free alternative to controller-based teleportation. We evaluate three different hands-free ways of teleporting with users selecting a destination using head gaze and activating teleport using: (1) eye-wink, (2) a mouth gesture, and (3) dwell. A user study with 20 participants compared all three techniques to controller-based teleportation using a waypoint based navigation task. Quantitative and subjective results showed eye-wink is the most viable alternative to using a controller and offered a lower selection error.

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Evaluation of Hands-free Teleportation in VR
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Virtual reality

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SUI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

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ISBN:9781450399487

DOI:10.1145/3565970

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