Effects of Clutching Mechanism on Remote Object Manipulation Tasks

Abstract

Remote object manipulation in practice is often an iterative process that needs clutching. However, while many interaction techniques have been designed for manipulating remote objects, clutching mechanism is often an important but overlooked aspect in manipulation tasks. In this paper, we evaluate the effects of clutching mechanism on remote object manipulation tasks, which compares two clutching mechanisms under various tasks settings. The results suggested that an efficient clutching mechanism can effectively improve the usability in remote object manipulation tasks.