Investigating the Performance of Gesture-Based Input for Mid-Air Text Entry in a Virtual Environment: A Comparison of Hand-Up versus Hand-Down Postures

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 21; no. 5; p. 1582
• Main Authors: Wang, Yahui, Wang, Yueyang, Chen, Jingzhou, Wang, Yincheng, Yang, Jie, Jiang, Ting, He, Jibo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 24.02.2021; MDPI
• Subjects: Design; Efficiency; Experiments; gesture recognition; Gestures; Hand; Humans; Interactive computer systems; Keyboards; Methods; Posture; subjective experience; task workload; typing performance; User experience; User-Computer Interface; Virtual Reality; word-gesture text entry technology; Workloads; subjective experience; virtual reality; gesture recognition; word-gesture text entry technology; task workload; typing performance

Although the interaction technology for virtual reality (VR) systems has evolved significantly over the past years, the text input efficiency in the virtual environment is still an ongoing problem. We deployed a word-gesture text entry technology based on gesture recognition in the virtual environme...