An Empirical Study on Intuitive Gesture Manipulation in Virtual Reality
Jen Tun Lee, R.P.C. Janaka Rajapakse, Kazunori Miyata · 2022
Gesture manipulation is a new input mode for the modern virtual reality (VR) user experience. Current gesture manipulation can be performed with three types of devices: Hand-held, Bare-hand and Hand-worn devices. Each device has its own advantages and disadvantages. However, many studies have not discussed the difference between these three types of gesture manipulation. To address this gap, we conducted research on how to find their learnability, effectiveness, and extensibility. We introduce a VR cup stacking game to mimic the state-of-presence experiment to compare the completion time of each device. Moreover, a series of user studies were conducted to collect feedback from participants. The results show that despite the Hand-held device being familiar to general users, but most of them were expected that the Hand-worn and Bare-Hand device can be well developed and wildly adopted into other applications to provide more intuitive and immersive experience.