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Exploration of virtual environments on tablet: comparison between tactile and tangible interaction techniques

Authors:

Jean-Baptiste Corrégé,

Céline Clavel,

Michèle Gouiffès,

Mehdi AmmiAuthors Info & Claims

ICMI '16: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

Pages 357 - 361

https://doi.org/10.1145/2993148.2993186

Published: 31 October 2016 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents a preliminary study which aims to investigate the tangible navigation in 3D Virtual Environments with new tablets (ex. Google Tango) that provide a self-contained 3D full tracking (ex. Google Tango, Intel RealSense). The tangible navigation was compared with tactile navigation techniques used in standard 3D applications (ex. video games, CAD, data visualization). Four conditions were compared: classic multi-touch interaction, tactile interaction with sticks, tangible interaction with a 1:2.5 scale factor and tangible interaction with a 1:5 scale factor. The study focuses on the subjective evaluation users make of the different interaction techniques in terms of usability and acceptability, and the fidelity of representation of the explored scene. Participants were asked to explore a virtual appartment using one of the four interaction techniques. Then, they were requested to draw a 2D sketch map of the explored appartment and to complete a questionnaire of usability and acceptabilty. In order to go further into the investigation, the participant's activity has also been recorded. First results show that exploring a virtual environment using only the device's movements is more usable and acceptable compared to tactile interaction technique, but the difference seems to become smaller as the used scale factor increases.

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Filho GGuerino GValentim NSantos CBento Villela MRios da Hora Rodrigues Kde Gois Ribeiro Darin T(2022)A systematic mapping study on usability and user eXperience evaluation of multi-touch systemsProceedings of the 21st Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3554364.3559131(1-12)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3554364.3559131
Zhao LLiu YYe DMa ZSong W(2020)Implementation and Evaluation of Touch-based Interaction Using Electrovibration Haptic Feedback in Virtual Environments2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)10.1109/VR46266.2020.00043(239-247)Online publication date: Mar-2020
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Index Terms

Exploration of virtual environments on tablet: comparison between tactile and tangible interaction techniques
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. Usability testing
      2. User studies
  2. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Ubiquitous and mobile devices
      1. Mobile devices

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ICMI '16: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

October 2016

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ISBN:9781450345569

DOI:10.1145/2993148

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Seikei University, Japan
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Kyoto University, Japan
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Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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University of Texas at Dallas, USA
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ISIR, France / University of Paris6, France

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Filho GGuerino GValentim NSantos CBento Villela MRios da Hora Rodrigues Kde Gois Ribeiro Darin T(2022)A systematic mapping study on usability and user eXperience evaluation of multi-touch systemsProceedings of the 21st Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3554364.3559131(1-12)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3554364.3559131
Zhao LLiu YYe DMa ZSong W(2020)Implementation and Evaluation of Touch-based Interaction Using Electrovibration Haptic Feedback in Virtual Environments2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)10.1109/VR46266.2020.00043(239-247)Online publication date: Mar-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/VR46266.2020.00043
Büschel WMitschick AMeyer TDachselt R(2019)Investigating Smartphone-based Pan and Zoom in 3D Data Spaces in Augmented RealityProceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services10.1145/3338286.3340113(1-13)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3338286.3340113

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