VRDoc: Gaze-based Interactions for VR Reading Experience

Virtual reality (VR) offers the promise of an infinite office and remote collaboration, however, existing interactions in VR do not strongly support one of the most essential tasks for most knowledge workers, reading. This paper presents VRDoc, a set of gaze-based interaction methods designed to imp...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Lee, Geonsun, Healey, Jennifer, Manocha, Dinesh
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 06.11.2022
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Documents
Eye movements
Legibility
Virtual reality
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Summary:Virtual reality (VR) offers the promise of an infinite office and remote collaboration, however, existing interactions in VR do not strongly support one of the most essential tasks for most knowledge workers, reading. This paper presents VRDoc, a set of gaze-based interaction methods designed to improve the reading experience in VR. We introduce three key components: Gaze Select-and-Snap for document selection, Gaze MagGlass for enhanced text legibility, and Gaze Scroll for ease of document traversal. We implemented each of these tools using a commodity VR headset with eye-tracking. In a series of user studies with 13 participants, we show that VRDoc makes VR reading both more efficient (p < 0.01 ) and less demanding (p < 0.01), and when given a choice, users preferred to use our tools over the current VR reading methods.
ISSN:2331-8422