Description: Stefan Lustenberger designer from Zürich, Portfolio and Application
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Virtual Reality (VR) is finding its place in the broad masses. Nevertheless, its potential has not yet been fully explored, since the standard of interaction still focuses on the use of controllers even though accurate hand gesture tracking has become available recently. We therefore investigated how gesture-based control systems can improve user interaction, and in particular which system of gestures is best suited to control these digital worlds.
Our analysis of daily interactions based on user observation found that scrolling, zooming and triggering actions are the fundamental components of most current VR interactions. For these three actions we conducted multiple user tests using our own innovative website-based user-testing platform. We then created a novel gesture system based on state of the art ergonomics research and the results from our user test. Further we incorporated these gestures into a VR demo environment allowing fast testing and ev
With the designed interaction gesture system, we showcased how specific tasks can benefit from specifically tailored gestures to improve user experience. The identified trade-off between ergonomics and user intuition is for us a key aspect for the successful implementations of gesture based control schemes in future.