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 …

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 …

Digitouch: Reconfigurable thumb-to-finger input and text entry on head-mounted displays

E Whitmire, M Jain, D Jain, G Nelson, R Karkar… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Input is a significant problem for wearable systems, particularly for head mounted virtual and
augmented reality displays. Existing input techniques either lack expressive power or may …

Hawkey: Efficient and versatile text entry for virtual reality

DM Pham, W Stuerzlinger - Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Text entry is still a challenging task in modern Virtual Reality (VR) systems. The lack of
efficient text entry methods limits the applications that can be used productively in VR …

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 …

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 …

Efficient flower text entry in virtual reality

J Leng, L Wang, X Liu, X Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Text entry is a frequently used task in virtual reality (VR) applications, and controller is the
most common interactive device in current VR systems. However, in terms of typing speed …

Hands-free multi-type character text entry in virtual reality

T Wan, R Shi, W Xu, Y Li, K Atkinson, L Yu, HN Liang - Virtual Reality, 2024 - Springer
Multi-type characters, including uppercase and lowercase letters, symbols, and numbers,
are essential in text entry activities. Although multi-type characters are used in passwords …