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Augmented rotations in virtual reality for users with a reduced range of head movement
INTRODUCTION: A large body of research in the field of virtual reality is focused on making user interfaces more natural and intuitive by leveraging natural body movements to explore a virtual environment. For example, head-tracked user interfaces allow users to naturally look around a virtual space...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6582373/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245034 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055668319841309 |
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author | Norouzi, Nahal Bölling, Luke Bruder, Gerd Welch, Greg |
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description | INTRODUCTION: A large body of research in the field of virtual reality is focused on making user interfaces more natural and intuitive by leveraging natural body movements to explore a virtual environment. For example, head-tracked user interfaces allow users to naturally look around a virtual space by moving their head. However, such approaches may not be appropriate for users with temporary or permanent limitations of their head movement. METHODS: In this paper, we present techniques that allow these users to get virtual benefits from a reduced range of physical movements. Specifically, we describe two techniques that augment virtual rotations relative to physical movement thresholds. RESULTS: We describe how each of the two techniques can be implemented with either a head tracker or an eye tracker, e.g. in cases when no physical head rotations are possible. CONCLUSIONS: We discuss their differences and limitations and we provide guidelines for the practical use of such augmented user interfaces. |
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spelling | pubmed-65823732019-06-26 Augmented rotations in virtual reality for users with a reduced range of head movement Norouzi, Nahal Bölling, Luke Bruder, Gerd Welch, Greg J Rehabil Assist Technol Eng ICDVRAT 2018 INTRODUCTION: A large body of research in the field of virtual reality is focused on making user interfaces more natural and intuitive by leveraging natural body movements to explore a virtual environment. For example, head-tracked user interfaces allow users to naturally look around a virtual space by moving their head. However, such approaches may not be appropriate for users with temporary or permanent limitations of their head movement. METHODS: In this paper, we present techniques that allow these users to get virtual benefits from a reduced range of physical movements. Specifically, we describe two techniques that augment virtual rotations relative to physical movement thresholds. RESULTS: We describe how each of the two techniques can be implemented with either a head tracker or an eye tracker, e.g. in cases when no physical head rotations are possible. CONCLUSIONS: We discuss their differences and limitations and we provide guidelines for the practical use of such augmented user interfaces. SAGE Publications 2019-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6582373/ /pubmed/31245034 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055668319841309 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | ICDVRAT 2018 Norouzi, Nahal Bölling, Luke Bruder, Gerd Welch, Greg Augmented rotations in virtual reality for users with a reduced range of head movement |
title | Augmented rotations in virtual reality for users with a reduced range
of head movement |
title_full | Augmented rotations in virtual reality for users with a reduced range
of head movement |
title_fullStr | Augmented rotations in virtual reality for users with a reduced range
of head movement |
title_full_unstemmed | Augmented rotations in virtual reality for users with a reduced range
of head movement |
title_short | Augmented rotations in virtual reality for users with a reduced range
of head movement |
title_sort | augmented rotations in virtual reality for users with a reduced range
of head movement |
topic | ICDVRAT 2018 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6582373/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245034 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2055668319841309 |
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