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Journal Articles IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Year : 2023

Handwriting for Efficient Text Entry in Industrial VR Applications: Influence of Board Orientation and Sensory Feedback on Performance

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Text entry in Virtual Reality (VR) is becoming an increasingly important task as the availability of hardware increases and the range of VR applications widens. This is especially true for VR industrial applications where users need to input data frequently. Large-scale industrial adoption of VR is still hampered by the productivity gap between entering data via a physical keyboard and VR data entry methods. Data entry needs to be efficient, easy-to-use and to learn and not frustrating. In this paper, we present a new data entry method based on handwriting recognition (HWR). Users can input text by simply writing on a virtual surface. We conduct a user study to determine the best writing conditions when it comes to surface orientation and sensory feedback. This feedback consists of visual, haptic, and auditory cues. We find that using a slanted board with sensory feedback is best to maximize writing speeds and minimize physical demand. We also evaluate the performance of our method in terms of text entry speed, error rate, usability and workload. The results show that handwriting in VR has high entry speed, usability with little training compared to other controller-based virtual text entry techniques. The system could be further improved by reducing high error rates through the use of more efficient handwriting recognition tools. In fact, the total error rate is 9.28% in the best condition. After 40 phrases of training, participants reach an average of 14.5 WPM, while a group with high VR familiarity reach 16.16 WPM after the same training. The highest observed textual data entry speed is 21.11 WPM.
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hal-04304498 , version 1 (29-11-2023)

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Nicolas Fourrier, Guillaume Moreau, Mustapha Benaouicha, Jean-Marie Normand. Handwriting for Efficient Text Entry in Industrial VR Applications: Influence of Board Orientation and Sensory Feedback on Performance. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023, 29 (11), pp.4438-4448. ⟨10.1109/TVCG.2023.3320215⟩. ⟨hal-04304498⟩
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