Text entry in virtual reality: A comprehensive review of the literature

TJ Dube, AS Arif - … and Interaction Technologies: Thematic Area, HCI …, 2019 - Springer
The availability of consumer-ready Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) has
resulted in a surge in VR applications. It has also prompted the design and development of …

A dose of reality: Overcoming usability challenges in vr head-mounted displays

M McGill, D Boland, R Murray-Smith… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We identify usability challenges facing consumers adopting Virtual Reality (VR) head-
mounted displays (HMDs) in a survey of 108 VR HMD users. Users reported significant …

Physical keyboards in virtual reality: Analysis of typing performance and effects of avatar hands

P Knierim, V Schwind, AM Feit… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Entering text is one of the most common tasks when interacting with computing systems.
Virtual Reality (VR) presents a challenge as neither the user's hands nor the physical input …

Selection-based text entry in virtual reality

M Speicher, AM Feit, P Ziegler, A Krüger - Proceedings of the 2018 CHI …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, Virtual Reality (VR) and 3D User Interfaces (3DUI) have seen a drastic
increase in popularity, especially in terms of consumer-ready hardware and software. While …

Text entry in immersive head-mounted display-based virtual reality using standard keyboards

J Grubert, L Witzani, E Ofek, M Pahud… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study the performance and user experience of two popular mainstream text entry
devices, desktop keyboards and touchscreen keyboards, for use in Virtual Reality (VR) …

Effects of hand representations for typing in virtual reality

J Grubert, L Witzani, E Ofek, M Pahud… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Alphanumeric text entry is a challenge for Virtual Reality (VR) applications. VR enables new
capabilities, impossible in the real world, such as an unobstructed view of the keyboard …

Exploring gaze for assisting freehand selection-based text entry in ar

MN Lystbæk, K Pfeuffer, JES Grønbæk… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
With eye-tracking increasingly available in Augmented Reality, we explore how gaze can be
used to assist freehand gestural text entry. Here the eyes are often coordinated with manual …

Rotoswype: Word-gesture typing using a ring

A Gupta, C Ji, HS Yeo, A Quigley, D Vogel - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We propose RotoSwype, a technique for word-gesture typing using the orientation of a ring
worn on the index finger. RotoSwype enables one-handed text-input without encumbering …

Ringtext: Dwell-free and hands-free text entry for mobile head-mounted displays using head motions

W Xu, HN Liang, Y Zhao, T Zhang, D Yu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a case for text entry using a circular keyboard layout for mobile
head-mounted displays (HMDs) that is dwell-free and does not require users to hold a …

Pointing and selection methods for text entry in augmented reality head mounted displays

W Xu, HN Liang, A He, Z Wang - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Augmented reality (AR) is on the rise with consumer-level head-mounted displays (HMDs)
becoming available in recent years. Text entry is an essential activity for AR systems, but it is …