Publication detail

Improved Indirect Virtual Objects Selection Methods for Cluttered Augmented Reality Environments on Mobile Devices

KAPINUS, M. BAMBUŠEK, D. MATERNA, Z. BERAN, V. SMRŽ, P.

Original Title

Improved Indirect Virtual Objects Selection Methods for Cluttered Augmented Reality Environments on Mobile Devices

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The problem of selecting virtual objects within augmented reality on handheld devices has been tackled multiple times. However, evaluations were carried out on purely synthetic tasks with uniformly placed homogeneous objects, often located on a plane and with none or low occlusions. This paper presents two novel approaches to indirect object selection dealing with highly occluded objects with large spatial distribution variability and heterogeneous size and appearance. The methods are designed to enable long-term usage with a tablet-like device. One method is based on a spatially anchored hierarchy menu, and the other utilizes a crosshair and a side menu that shows candidate objects according to a custom-developed metric. The proposed approaches are compared with direct touch in the context of spatial visual programming of collaborative robots problem, on a realistic workplace and a common robotic task. The preliminary evaluation indicates that the main benefit of the proposed indirect methods could be their higher precision and higher selection confidence for the user.

Keywords

virtual object selection, augmented reality, spatially situated visual programming

Authors

KAPINUS, M.; BAMBUŠEK, D.; MATERNA, Z.; BERAN, V.; SMRŽ, P.

Released

10. 3. 2022

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Location

Sapporo, Hokkaido

ISBN

978-1-6654-0731-1

Book

HRI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Pages from

834

Pages to

838

Pages count

5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT176815,
  author="Michal {Kapinus} and Daniel {Bambušek} and Zdeněk {Materna} and Vítězslav {Beran} and Pavel {Smrž}",
  title="Improved Indirect Virtual Objects Selection Methods for Cluttered Augmented Reality Environments on Mobile Devices",
  booktitle="HRI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction",
  year="2022",
  pages="834--838",
  publisher="Association for Computing Machinery",
  address="Sapporo, Hokkaido",
  doi="10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889374",
  isbn="978-1-6654-0731-1"
}