Let your fingers do the walking: A unified approach for efficient short-, medium-, and long-distance travel in VR

Z. Yan , R. W. Lindeman , A. Dey

3DUI

Travel interfaces in VR must trade off speed against precision, and most support only one metaphor suited to a single range of distances. This paper presents a unified framework with three multi-touch techniques — one each for short, medium, and long distances — tied together by a 'fingers-as-legs' metaphor on a single device. In an experiment comparing it with a gamepad, the gamepad was more time-efficient overall, but task quality was similar and the finger-based approach allowed faster switching between travel modes.

@inproceedings{yan2016,
  author    = {Z. Yan and R. W. Lindeman and A. Dey},
  title     = {Let your fingers do the walking: A unified approach for efficient short-, medium-, and long-distance travel in VR},
  booktitle = {3DUI},
  pages     = {27-30},
  doi       = {10.1109/3DUI.2016.7460027},
  year      = {2016}
}