MultiFingerBubble: A 3D Bubble Cursor Variation for Dense Environments
William Delamare, Maxime Daniel, Khalad Hasan
Abstract
In this work, we propose MultiFingerBubble, a new variation of the 3D Bubble Cursor. The 3D Bubble Cursor is sensitive to distractors in dense environments: the volume selection resizes to snap-to nearby targets. To prevent the cursor to constantly re-snap to neighboring targets, MultiFingerBubble includes multiple targets in the volume selection, and hence increases the targets effective width. Each target in the volume selection is associated with a specific finger. Users can then select a target by flexing its corresponding finger. We report on a controlled in-lab experiment to explore various design options regarding the number of fingers to use, and the target-to-finger mapping and its visualization. Our study results suggest that MultiFingerBubble is best used with three fingers and colored lines to reveal the mapping between targets and fingers.