Towards Utilizing Touch-sensitive Physical Keyboards for Text Entry in Virtual Reality

Otte, Alexander; Menzner, Tim; Gesslein, Travis; Gagel, Philipp; Schneider, Daniel; Grubert, Jens

doi:10.1109/vr.2019.8797740

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“…In VR, around device interaction has been studied in conjunction with physical keyboards for text entry (e.g., [68,74,75,91]).…”

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confidence: 99%

Above Surface Interaction for Multiscale Navigation in Mobile Virtual Reality

Menzner¹,

Gesslein²,

Otte³

et al. 2020

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Figure 1: Relative, rate-controlled mapping for multiscale navigation between a touchscreen and VR headset: a) A user points her finger in the zoom out space (between the maximum finger height and halfway down the minimum height). b) While she holds her finger in this zoom out space the virtual information space scales down until it eventually reaches the size of the touch screen (with a rate corresponding to the height of the finger). c) The user points her finger in the zoom in space (between the minimum height and halfway up to the maximum height). c) While she holds her finger in this zoom in space the virtual information space scales up until it eventually reaches 1:1 scale (with a rate corresponding to the height of the finger). Target selection happens through touch on the touch screen.

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“…In VR, around device interaction has been studied in conjunction with physical keyboards for text entry (e.g., [68,74,75,91]).…”

Section: Around Device Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Above Surface Interaction for Multiscale Navigation in Mobile Virtual Reality

Menzner¹,

Gesslein²,

Otte³

et al. 2020

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“…Therefore, a versatile VR text entry method should allow users to be more mobile than with a standard physical keyboard and also relax the requirement of having to keep fingers aligned with keys. Related works have addressed this by proposing virtual keyboards controlled with VR headsets [103,104], portable standard keyboards [33,44,80], and input methods using hands [50,101], fingers [26,36,52,67,74,94,108,109], gaze [48,49,65], or stylus [21].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ideally, a VR text entry method should afford users awareness of physical keyboards, or avoid the use of a physical keyboard in the first place. Related works have addressed this by by providing visual cues about the physical keyboard position [11,33,41,44,55,69,74,97], attaching keyboards to a user's body so she is kinaesthetically aware of their position [80], or virtual keyboards that readily show up in the user's field of view [19,53,106].…”

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confidence: 99%

TapGazer: Text Entry with Finger Tapping and Gaze-directed Word Selection

Lutteroth

Perlin

2022

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Figure 1: a) Physical setup: A VR user enters text without needing to see hands or keyboard, by tapping on a surface and resolving ambiguity between candidate words via gaze selection. b) Visual interface: Fingers are mapped to multiple letters (see colors at bottom); the central area shows candidate words corresponding to the current input sequence of finger taps. Users can select a word by gazing at it and tapping the right thumb. c) State machine of Tapgazer with gaze selection and word completion.

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“…Text input is a non-trivial [31] and fundamental task [7] which is an integral component of interaction in immersive environments. Subsequently text input has recently received increased attention, notably in Virtual Reality (VR), with authors focusing on interaction visualisation challenges [13,14,21,34], typing performance [7,29] and feedback methods [26,28], among others. Typing in Augmented Reality (AR) has also been explored, with the key focus on the use of mid-air gestures [22], combined input mechanisms [8,40] and keyboard representations [22].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…2 Related Work -Text input in AR/VR 2.1 Physical keyboards and external devices Physical keyboards have extensively been integrated in virtual environments, as a way of reducing the learning curve of new text input methods while keeping a familiar input mechanism [28]. Logitech released their own Software Developer Kit (SDK) as a consumer-ready solution to use physical keyboards in VR [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

Evaluation of Ultrasound Haptics as a Supplementary Feedback Cue for Grasping in Virtual Environments

Frutos-Pascual

Harrison

Creed

et al. 2019

2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

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Character input in immersive environments is a non trivial task that has attracted much attention in recent years. This paper presents an evaluation of keyboard position, orientation and interaction together with the influence of visual interaction feedback in a controlled character input task with 27 participants in Augmetned Reality (AR). It presents 5 different keyboard locations (3 bounded to the headset and 2 bounded to the non-dominant hand of the user) and 3 visual interaction feedback methods (finger raycast, fingertip glow and both combined). Objective (completion time, accuracy, Key per Minute (KPM)) and subjective (After Scenario Questionnaire (ASQ)) metrics are presented. Results showed that keyboard placement had an effect on accuracy, KPM metrics and subjective preference, with keyboard visualisation parallel and bounded to the headset position and orientation outperforming other keyboard locations.

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Towards Utilizing Touch-sensitive Physical Keyboards for Text Entry in Virtual Reality

Cited by 22 publications

References 26 publications

Above Surface Interaction for Multiscale Navigation in Mobile Virtual Reality

Above Surface Interaction for Multiscale Navigation in Mobile Virtual Reality

TapGazer: Text Entry with Finger Tapping and Gaze-directed Word Selection

Evaluation of Ultrasound Haptics as a Supplementary Feedback Cue for Grasping in Virtual Environments

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