Flying Names: Manipulating Name Tags in XR Social Environments for Target Selection Tasks
Fengyusheng Wang, Chia-Ming Chang, Takeo Igarashi · 2023
Recent developments in Extended Reality (XR) have led to the creation of various Virtual Reality (VR) social applications that allow small groups of people to interact and participate in various activities. However, these applications are not suitable for larger-scale social scenarios. One major challenge is the lacking of effective solutions for target selection because existing methods for occluded-target selection do not apply well to humans. In this paper, we propose a method called “Flying Names” to improve decision-making accuracy during target selection for both VR and Augmented Reality (AR) social environments by manipulating the heights of name tags on the fly and connecting an auxiliary line from a name tag to its highlighted owner. Our user study results indicate that this proposal effectively improves the accuracy of identifying the actual target person and is better than using either one or none of manipulating heights and connecting lines.