The Department of Informatics Systems congratulates Stephan Pölzl on his successful defence of his Master’s thesis and completion of his studies!
In his Master’s thesis “Investigating Users’ Mid-Air Spatial Memory” (supervised by David Ahlström) Stephan Pölzl explores the potential of in-air pointing as an input technique in head-mounted display settings and how well people can point at and select invisible targets located in the air in their surroundings. In Stephan’s user experiment, participants used a VR/AR head-mounted display and learned and memorized in-air target locations in repeated practice rounds. After the practice rounds, the participants had to point at and select the corresponding in-air locations without seeing the targets. On average, participants could estimate the correct (invisible) target locations with 10-12 centimetres accuracy.
Stephan Pölzl’s work and findings contribute to a better understanding of people’s (in-air) pointing abilities, which in turn can help when designing future pointing-based applications for head-mounted displays.
Der Beitrag Stephan Pölzl completes his Master’s studies erschien zuerst auf University of Klagenfurt.
