GazeHand: A Gaze-Driven Virtual Hand Interface
In this paper, we present a novel interface named GazeHand which is designed for distant object interaction in virtual reality. The GazeHand interface translates the virtual hands near to a distant object that the user is looking at and allows direct hand gesture interaction for manipulating an obje...
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| author | Jaejoon Jeong Soo-Hyung Kim Hyung-Jeong Yang Gun A. Lee Seungwon Kim |
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| description | In this paper, we present a novel interface named GazeHand which is designed for distant object interaction in virtual reality. The GazeHand interface translates the virtual hands near to a distant object that the user is looking at and allows direct hand gesture interaction for manipulating an object. Either eye-gaze or head-gaze can be applied to the GazeHand interface to decide the translated positions of the hands. In a user study, we compared these two variants of the GazeHand interface, i.e., Eye-GazeHand and Head-GazeHand, with a baseline condition of a modified Go-Go interface. The results showed that both GazeHand interfaces support the high-level usability of the direct hand operation for distant object interaction while providing the benefits of the gaze interaction: speed and reachability. The two variants of GazeHand interfaces showed better performance than the modified Go-Go interface and the effects were more prominent as the difficulty level of the task increased. The most preferred interface was the Head-GazeHand which took the benefit of a stable head-gaze, while the Eye-GazeHand was less stable using eye-gaze. Meanwhile, the Eye-GazeHand interface showed its advantage over the Head-GazeHand when the task required much gaze movement as it used faster eye-gaze without requiring head movement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2a9490b58f104e3985f8a8524a1639fc2023-12-08T00:07:22ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-011113370313371610.1109/ACCESS.2023.333737210332195GazeHand: A Gaze-Driven Virtual Hand InterfaceJaejoon Jeong0https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9734-2182Soo-Hyung Kim1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3575-5035Hyung-Jeong Yang2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3024-5060Gun A. Lee3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1644-6934Seungwon Kim4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4221-3058Department of Software Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South KoreaSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South KoreaDepartment of Artificial Intelligence Convergence, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South KoreaUniversity of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South KoreaIn this paper, we present a novel interface named GazeHand which is designed for distant object interaction in virtual reality. The GazeHand interface translates the virtual hands near to a distant object that the user is looking at and allows direct hand gesture interaction for manipulating an object. Either eye-gaze or head-gaze can be applied to the GazeHand interface to decide the translated positions of the hands. In a user study, we compared these two variants of the GazeHand interface, i.e., Eye-GazeHand and Head-GazeHand, with a baseline condition of a modified Go-Go interface. The results showed that both GazeHand interfaces support the high-level usability of the direct hand operation for distant object interaction while providing the benefits of the gaze interaction: speed and reachability. The two variants of GazeHand interfaces showed better performance than the modified Go-Go interface and the effects were more prominent as the difficulty level of the task increased. The most preferred interface was the Head-GazeHand which took the benefit of a stable head-gaze, while the Eye-GazeHand was less stable using eye-gaze. Meanwhile, the Eye-GazeHand interface showed its advantage over the Head-GazeHand when the task required much gaze movement as it used faster eye-gaze without requiring head movement.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10332195/Distant object interactionpivot pointvirtual handvirtual reality |
| spellingShingle | Jaejoon Jeong Soo-Hyung Kim Hyung-Jeong Yang Gun A. Lee Seungwon Kim GazeHand: A Gaze-Driven Virtual Hand Interface IEEE Access Distant object interaction pivot point virtual hand virtual reality |
| title | GazeHand: A Gaze-Driven Virtual Hand Interface |
| title_full | GazeHand: A Gaze-Driven Virtual Hand Interface |
| title_fullStr | GazeHand: A Gaze-Driven Virtual Hand Interface |
| title_full_unstemmed | GazeHand: A Gaze-Driven Virtual Hand Interface |
| title_short | GazeHand: A Gaze-Driven Virtual Hand Interface |
| title_sort | gazehand a gaze driven virtual hand interface |
| topic | Distant object interaction pivot point virtual hand virtual reality |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10332195/ |
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