Technique Categories

Our selection techniques are broken up into five different metaphor categories:

Grasping: Which involves the user grasping and interacting with objects using their virtual hands.

Pointing: Which involves the user selecting and interaction objects beyond the area of the users reach simply by pointing at them.

Indirect: Which involves the user selecting or manipulating virtual objects without directly interacting with them.

Bimanual: Which involves the user using both hands to select or interact with virtual objects.

Hybrid: Which involves combing different selection and interaction techniques.

Grasping

Hand Grasping techniques

Go-Go

Extended Reach

Enhanced Grasping

3D Bubble Cursor

PRISM

Hook

Pointing

Simple Ray-casting (Although not directly included as a technique, multiple techniques of our techniques use this feature)

Fishing Reel

Image-plane pointing

Volume-based Pointing

Flashlight

Aperture selection

Sphere-casting

Enhanced Pointing

Bendcast

Depth Ray

Absolute and relative mapping

Indirect

World in miniature

Bimanual

Symmetric Bi-manual Techniques

Spindle

iSith

Asymmetric Bi-manual Techniques

Spindle + Wheel

Flexible Pointer

Hybrid

HOMER

Scaled-World Grab

Serial Selection Mode

Progressive refinement

SQUAD

EXPAND

Double Bubble