Is Natural User Interaction Really Natural? An evaluation of gesture-based navigating techniques in Virtual Environments

Authors

  • Juan Manuel Gonzalez Calleros Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
  • Josefina Guerrero García
  • Claudia González
  • Eduardo Galicia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-22-1-2788

Keywords:

Natural User Interface, Interactive system, Gesture Recognition, Evaluation, Body Language

Abstract

Many interaction techniques have been developed for virtual worlds including the use of novel devices. Nowadays, technological development has placed us in a time where the interaction devices are no longer available just to high technology laboratories. In this context, today we can develop solutions for natural user interfaces and its massive adoption presents research challenges. In this paper we analyze the use of gesture-based interaction for the navigation of virtual worlds. For them we have created a virtual world and contrasted the use of interactive interfaces based on gesture of hands or body, as well as interaction based on mouse and keyboard. The results found indicate that the natural is not as it is even though we imitate what we do in real life.

Author Biography

Juan Manuel Gonzalez Calleros, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Juan Manuel Gonzalez Calleros received his PhD from Université catholique de Louvain, in Belgium, and his dissertation research focused on a Methodology for developing 3D User Interfaces of Information Systems guided with a set of principles. He is currently working at BUAP in the different projects related to the design and development of context-aware User Interfaces.

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Published

2018-03-30

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2018): Thematic Issue on Language & Knowledge Engineering (Guest Editors: D. Pinto, D. Vilariño, B. Beltrán)

Section

Articles of the Thematic Issue

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