3D Selection Vault

Outline Pursuits

Gaze-assisted selection of occluded objects: outlines of candidate objects move, and the user follows the intended one with the eyes.

How it works

Each candidate's outline is traced by a moving stimulus; the system selects the object whose motion the user's eyes follow (smooth pursuit), even if it is partly hidden.

Papers

• Ludwig Sidenmark, Christopher Clarke, Xuesong Zhang, Jenny Phu, Hans Gellersen (2020). Outline Pursuits: Gaze-Assisted Selection of Occluded Objects in Virtual Reality. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems doi:10.1145/3313831.3376438
• Jan Leusmann (2021). A Literature Review on Distant Object Selection Methods. Master's thesis, University of Stuttgart doi:10.18419/opus-12060
• Difeng Yu, Tilman Dingler, Eduardo Velloso, Jorge Goncalves (2024). Object Selection and Manipulation in VR Headsets: Research Challenges, Solutions, and Success Measurements. ACM Computing Surveys doi:10.1145/3706417