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Natural User Interaction Requires Good Affordance When Using a Head-Mounted Display

Authors:
Takayuki Miura
Shoma Urakawa
Mitsuharu Isojima
Jianing Yu
Akihito Yoshii
Tatsuo Nakajima

Keywords: NUI; HMD; VR; Affordance; Mental model;

Abstract:
Natural user interface (NUI) devices have become commercially common in various types of Virtual reality (VR)-based services such as video games and public attractions. Recently, a type of head-mounted display (HMD) such as Oculus Rift also attracts the industry with the possibility of developing new types of emerging VR-based services. In this paper, we report that appropriate affordances are necessary to use respective NUI devices, particularly when a user wears an HMD, which implies that different affordances are necessary for different NUI devices. We have developed a preliminary case study to use different NUI devices, where a user wears an HMD and navigates the interaction with the case study service. We conducted an experiment to investigate the relationship between the affordances and the NUI devices to extract useful insights to develop future VR-based services that use NUI devices and HMDs. The results suggest considering the differences of NUI devices for the affordance design to navigate VR-based services.

Pages: 23 to 28

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: February 21, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4448

ISBN: 978-1-61208-452-7

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 21, 2016 to February 25, 2016