Exploring Bimanual Haptic Feedback for Spatial Search in Virtual Reality. 2024

BoYu Gao, and Tong Shao, and Huawei Tu, and Qizi Ma, and Zitao Liu, and Teng Han

Spatial search tasks are common and crucial in many Virtual Reality (VR) applications. Traditional methods to enhance the performance of spatial search often employ sensory cues such as visual, auditory, or haptic feedback. However, the design and use of bimanual haptic feedback with two VR controllers for spatial search in VR remains largely unexplored. In this work, we explored bimanual haptic feedback with various combinations of haptic properties, where four types of bimanual haptic feedback were designed, for spatial search tasks in VR. Two experiments were designed to evaluate the effectiveness of bimanual haptic feedback on spatial direction guidance and search in VR. The results from the first experiment reveal that our proposed bimanual haptic schemes significantly enhanced the recognition of spatial directions in terms of accuracy and speed compared to spatial audio feedback. The second experiment's findings suggest that the performance of bimanual haptic feedback was comparable to or even better than the visual arrow, especially in reducing the angle of head movement and enhancing searching targets behind the participants, which was supported by subjective feedback as well. Based on these findings, we have derived a set of design recommendations for spatial search using bimanual haptic feedback in VR.

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