Development and Evaluation of a Tangible Hand-writing System for Immersive VR Using a Magnetic Motion Capture Device

Abstract

We have developed a Tangible Hand-writing System for VR using a magnetic motion capture device and an immersive HMD, which can be operated intuitively by finger touch. In order to evaluate the usability of this system in comparison with a tablet device, we constructed two types of tracing measurement systems, a tangible-type system and a tablet-type system. We conducted an experiment to measure the tracing task of Kanji characters at two different writing speeds. The results showed that the tangible system was superior in subjective evaluation by the participants and in a comparison between starting point gaps.