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Improved Indirect Virtual Objects Selection Methods for Cluttered Augmented Reality Environments on Mobile Devices
Bambušek Daniel, Ing. (DCGM)
Materna Zdeněk, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Beran Vítězslav, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Smrž Pavel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (DCGM)
virtual object selection, augmented reality, spatially situated visual
programming
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.
@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"
}