A. Santos
T. Zarraonandia
ABSTRACT
Despite the increasing popularity of Virtual Reality (VR) technology, the designers of these type of environments stick lack the necessary support for designing effective and usable interfaces for their creations. This works aim to provide support to VR designers by comparing the efficiency (task completion time and error rate) and usability of four types of menu configurations with different geometry (radial and linear) and position in the world (non-diegetic positions and spatial positions). We present the results of two experiments that suggest that in both non-diegetic and spatial menus the task completion time is smaller on radial menus than linear menus. In the case of error rate and usability, no statistic significant differences between radial and linear menus were found regardless their position in the VR environment.
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- A Comparative Study of Menus in Virtual Reality Environments
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