Comparing Single-modal and Multimodal Interaction in an Augmented Reality System

  • Zhimin Wang
  • , Huangyue Yu
  • , Haofei Wang
  • , Zongji Wang
  • , Feng Lu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Multimodal interaction is expected to offer better user experience in Augmented Reality (AR), and thus becomes a recent research focus. However, due to the lack of hardware-level support, most existing works only combine two modalities at a time, e.g., gesture and speech. Gaze-based interaction techniques have been explored for the screen-based application, but rarely been used in AR systemsy configurable augmented reality system. In this paper, we propose a multimodal interactive system that integrates gaze, gesture and speech in a flexibly configurable augmented reality system. Our lightweight head-mounted device supports accurate gaze tracking, hand gesture recognition and speech recognition simultaneously. More importantly, the system can be easily configured into different modality combinations to study the effects of different interaction techniques. We evaluated the system in the table lamps scenario, and compared the performance of different interaction techniques. The experimental results show that the Gaze+Gesture+Speech is superior in terms of performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdjunct Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages165-166
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781728176758
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2020
Event2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2020 - Virtual, Recife, Brazil
Duration: 9 Nov 202013 Nov 2020

Publication series

NameAdjunct Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2020

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2020
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CityVirtual, Recife
Period9/11/2013/11/20

Keywords

  • AR system
  • augmented reality
  • gaze
  • gesture
  • multimodal interaction
  • speech

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