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The paper concerns target disambiguation techniques in egocentric vision for wearable augmented reality systems. In particular, the paper focuses on two of the most commonly used selection techniques in immersive environments: Depth Ray and SQUAD. The design and implementation of such techniques in a touchless augmented reality interface, together with the results of a preliminary usability evaluation carried out with inexpert users, are discussed. The user study provides insights on users’ preferences when dealing with the precision-velocity trade-off in selection tasks, carried out in an augmented reality scenario.
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Caggianese, G., Gallo, L., Neroni, P. (2016). Touchless Disambiguation Techniques for Wearable Augmented Reality Systems. In: Pietro, G., Gallo, L., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services 2016. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 55. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39345-2_48
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