ErgoGlide: A Wearable Trackball Device for Ergonomic Text Entry in Virtual Reality
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| author | Bakar, Muhammad Abu Tsai, Yu-Ting Imran, Muhammad Chen, Yan-Ann |
| author_facet | Bakar, Muhammad Abu Tsai, Yu-Ting Imran, Muhammad Chen, Yan-Ann |
| contents | In virtual reality, it is challenging to achieve satisfactory text entry speed/accuracy, ergonomics, usability, and learnability. To address this issue, we developed ErgoGlide, a novel lightweight and compact wearable device that facilitates text entry tasks in virtual environments. The proposed ErgoGlide can be regarded as a small trackball that is wearable on a user's finger like a ring. By using ErgoGlide with a hive-like virtual keyboard, the user can rotate the ball for key selections, making text entry intuitive and accurate. We conducted three user studies to evaluate ErgoGlide and found that key confirmation techniques have significant effects on text entry speed and the hive-like keyboard design significantly reduced thumb movements. Furthermore, ErgoGlide can significantly improve typing accuracy, ergonomics, and usability over previous text entry methods. Experimental results also indicated that the typing speed of ErgoGlide can be notably improved after training. |
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| spellingShingle | ErgoGlide: A Wearable Trackball Device for Ergonomic Text Entry in Virtual Reality Bakar, Muhammad Abu Tsai, Yu-Ting Imran, Muhammad Chen, Yan-Ann Human-Computer Interaction In virtual reality, it is challenging to achieve satisfactory text entry speed/accuracy, ergonomics, usability, and learnability. To address this issue, we developed ErgoGlide, a novel lightweight and compact wearable device that facilitates text entry tasks in virtual environments. The proposed ErgoGlide can be regarded as a small trackball that is wearable on a user's finger like a ring. By using ErgoGlide with a hive-like virtual keyboard, the user can rotate the ball for key selections, making text entry intuitive and accurate. We conducted three user studies to evaluate ErgoGlide and found that key confirmation techniques have significant effects on text entry speed and the hive-like keyboard design significantly reduced thumb movements. Furthermore, ErgoGlide can significantly improve typing accuracy, ergonomics, and usability over previous text entry methods. Experimental results also indicated that the typing speed of ErgoGlide can be notably improved after training. |
| title | ErgoGlide: A Wearable Trackball Device for Ergonomic Text Entry in Virtual Reality |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00823 |