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 …

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 …

PizzaText: Text entry for virtual reality systems using dual thumbsticks

D Yu, K Fan, H Zhang, D Monteiro… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present PizzaText, a circular keyboard layout technique for text entry in virtual reality
(VR) environments that uses the dual thumbsticks of a hand-held game controller. Text entry …

Reconviguration: Reconfiguring physical keyboards in virtual reality

D Schneider, A Otte, T Gesslein, P Gagel… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical keyboards are common peripherals for personal computers and are efficient
standard text entry devices. Recent research has investigated how physical keyboards can …

Hipad: Text entry for head-mounted displays using circular touchpad

H Jiang, D Weng - 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Text entry in virtual reality (VR) is currently a common activity and a challenging problem. In
this paper, we introduce HiPad, leveraging a circular touchpad with a circular virtual …

Efficient typing on a visually occluded physical keyboard

J Walker, B Li, K Vertanen, S Kuhl - … of the 2017 CHI conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The rise of affordable head-mounted displays (HMDs) has raised questions about how to
best design user interfaces for this technology. This paper focuses on the use of HMDs for …

Hifinger: One-handed text entry technique for virtual environments based on touches between fingers

H Jiang, D Weng, Z Zhang, F Chen - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
We present a text entry technique called HiFinger, which is an eyes-free, one-handed
wearable text entry technique for immersive virtual environments by thumb-to-fingers touch …

Using traditional keyboards in vr: Steamvr developer kit and pilot game user study

S Bovet, A Kehoe, K Crowley, N Curran… - 2018 IEEE Games …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Following the commercial release of VR systems like HTC Vive and Oculus Rift to
mainstream consumers, academic publications have explored the challenges of text entry in …

PinchText: One-handed text entry technique combining pinch gestures and hand positions for head-mounted displays

H Jiang, D Weng, X Dongye, Y Liu - International Journal of Human …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents PinchText, a mid-air technique with a condensed keys-based keyboard,
which combines hand positions and pinch gestures, enabling one-handed text entry for …