Starfish
A selection technique for dense scenes where a starfish-shaped cursor reaches out to the targets nearest the pre-selected one.
How it works
After the cursor is placed in a dense region, branches extend to the closest candidates; the user moves along a branch to select the intended target.
Papers
- Jonathan Wonner, Jérôme Grosjean, Antonio Capobianco, Dominique Bechmann (2012). Starfish: A Selection Technique for Dense Virtual Environments. ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) doi:10.1145/2407336.2407356
- Jan Leusmann (2021). A Literature Review on Distant Object Selection Methods. Master's thesis, University of Stuttgart doi:10.18419/opus-12060