SmoothMoves: smooth pursuits head movements for augmented reality.

Abreu Esteves, Augusto; Verweij, David; Suraiya, Liza; Islam, Rasal; Lee, Youryang; Oakley, Ian

Abstract

SmoothMoves is an interaction technique for augmented reality (AR) based on smooth pursuits head movements. It works by computing correlations between the movements of on-screen targets and the user’s head while tracking those targets. The paper presents three studies. The first suggests that head based input can act as an easier and more affordable surrogate for eye-based input in many smooth pursuits interface designs. A follow-up study grounds the technique in the domain of augmented reality, and captures the error rates and acquisition times on different types of AR devices: head-mounted (2.6%, 1965ms) and hand-held (4.9%, 2089ms). Finally, the paper presents an interactive lighting system prototype that demonstrates the benefits of using smooth pursuits head movements in interaction with AR interfaces. A final qualitative study reports on positive feedback regarding the technique’s suitability for this scenario. Together, these results show SmoothMoves is viable, efficient and immediately available for a wide range of wearable devices that feature embedded motion sensing.

Citation

Abreu Esteves, A., Verweij, D., Suraiya, L., Islam, R., Lee, Y., & Oakley, I. (2017). SmoothMoves: smooth pursuits head movements for augmented reality. In UIST '17 Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (167-178). https://doi.org/10.1145/3126594.3126616

• Conference Name: 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology
• Start Date: Oct 22, 2017
• End Date: Oct 25, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Jul 1, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Oct 20, 2017
• Publication Date: Oct 20, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jun 27, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 19, 2017
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 167-178
• Book Title: UIST '17 Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-4981-9
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3126594.3126616
• Keywords: Smooth, pursuits, head movements, augmented, reality,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/953404