Usability Study on a New Assembly of 3D Interactive Gestures for Human–Computer Interaction

EasyChair Preprint 5306

Abstract

In 3D gesture interaction, people engage in contactless interaction with computers through arm and palm movements. The aim of this study was to develop and verify a reasonable evaluation scheme for 3D gesture usability through empirical methods and finally form an efficient, natural, and standard gesture library for 3D interaction. Two experiments were performed. In the first experiment, an evaluation scheme for 3D gestures with different weighted indexes of usability was developed, and then the ratings of the usability dimensions of 30 gestures within 10 operations in the 3D interaction were compared with one another. The purpose of this comparison was to summarize a set of 3D gestures with the highest usability. In the second experiment, the validity of the gesture set acquired in the first experiment was verified by comparing the usability differences between the high- and low-rated 3D gestures. An optimal set of 3D gestures was obtained by comparing the usability ratings of the different gestures and then verifying the superiority of the operation performance and users’ satisfaction of this 3D gesture set in a real operation task.

Keyphrases: 3D gestures, Human–computer interaction, Usability

@booklet{EasyChair:5306,
  author    = {Bohan Wu and Gang Zhang and Xuegang Zhang and Shibo Mei and Jinduo Wu and Hongting Li and Zhen Yang},
  title     = {Usability Study on a New Assembly of 3D Interactive Gestures for Human–Computer Interaction},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 5306},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}