Page-Turning Techniques for Reading Interfaces in Virtual Environments

Tilman Dingler; Siran Li; Niels van Berkel; Vassilis Kostakos

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Page-Turning Techniques for Reading Interfaces in Virtual Environments

Tilman Dingler, Siran Li, Niels van Berkel, Vassilis Kostakos

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Virtual Reality (VR) environments offer new ways and formats to consume and process information. Despite multimedia offerings, most information remains to be presented via text. VR has the potential to deliver immersive reading experiences while compensating for some of the drawbacks of rather static e-books. To allow readers to step into virtual books, we developed a 3D reading environment with three page-turning techniques for VR. Readers either move the camera position from page to page or control the page flow as positioned in a sequential or radial arrangement. Results from a user study with 18 participants show that moving pages is perceived as more comfortable than moving the camera position while allowing for higher fluency and reading speeds. Linear page movements support readers’ focus on a single page whereas the radial arrangement enables readers to jump between pages quickly. Our findings inform the design of immersive reading experiences in VR.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2020
Pages	454–461
ISBN (Print)	9781450389754
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3441000.3441024
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	OzCHI '20: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Sydney, Australia Duration: 1 Dec 2020 → 1 Dec 2020

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Conference	OzCHI '20: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	01/12/2020 → 01/12/2020

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Dingler, T, Li, S, van Berkel, N & Kostakos, V 2020, Page-Turning Techniques for Reading Interfaces in Virtual Environments. in Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 454–461, OzCHI '20: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Sydney, Australia, 01/12/2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3441000.3441024

Page-Turning Techniques for Reading Interfaces in Virtual Environments. / Dingler, Tilman; Li, Siran; van Berkel, Niels et al.
Proceedings of the Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. p. 454–461.

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