%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Global Scene Filtering, Exploration, and Pointing in Occluded Virtual Space
%+ University of Waterloo [Waterloo]
%+ Huawei Technologies Canada
%+ University of Manitoba [Winnipeg]
%A Chen, Yuan
%A Sun, Junwei
%A Xu, Qiang
%A Lank, Edward
%A Irani, Pourang
%A Li, Wei
%Z Part 2: Virtual Reality
%< avec comité de lecture
%@ 978-3-030-85606-9
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 18th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT)
%C Bari, Italy
%Y Carmelo Ardito
%Y Rosa Lanzilotti
%Y Alessio Malizia
%Y Helen Petrie
%Y Antonio Piccinno
%Y Giuseppe Desolda
%Y Kori Inkpen
%I Springer International Publishing
%3 Human-Computer-Interaction – INTERACT 2021
%V LNCS-12936
%N Part V
%P 156-176
%8 2021-08-30
%D 2021
%R 10.1007/978-3-030-85607-6_11
%Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers
%X Target acquisition in an occluded environment is challenging given the omni-directional and first-person view in virtual reality (VR). We propose Solar-Casting, a global scene filtering technique to manage occlusion in VR. To improve target search, users control a reference sphere centered at their head through varied occlusion management modes: Hide, SemiT (Semi-Transparent), Rotate. In a preliminary study, we find SemiT to be better suited for understanding the context without sacrificing performance by applying semi-transparency to targets within the controlled sphere. We then compare Solar-Casting to highly efficient selection techniques to acquire targets in a dense and occluded VR environment. We find that Solar-Casting performs competitively to other techniques in known environments, where the target location information is revealed. However, in unknown environments, requiring target search, Solar-Casting outperforms existing approaches. We conclude with scenarios demonstrating how Solar-Casting can be applied to crowded and occluded environments in VR applications.
%G English
%Z TC 13
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-04291272/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-04291272/file/520519_1_En_11_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-04291272
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-04291272
%~ IFIP-LNCS
%~ IFIP
%~ IFIP-TC13
%~ IFIP-INTERACT
%~ IFIP-LNCS-12936