Real-time 3D Target Inference via Biomechanical Simulation

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A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa

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2024-05-11

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en

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18

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CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Selecting a target in a 3D environment is often challenging, especially with small/distant targets or when sensor noise is high. To facilitate selection, target-inference methods must be accurate, fast, and account for noise and motor variability. However, traditional data-free approaches fall short in accuracy since they ignore variability. While data-driven solutions achieve higher accuracy, they rely on extensive human datasets so prove costly, time-consuming, and transfer poorly. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that leverages biomechanical simulation to produce synthetic motion data, capturing a variety of movement-related factors, such as limb configurations and motor noise. Then, an inference model is trained with only the simulated data. Our simulation-based approach improves transfer and lowers cost; variety-rich data can be produced in large quantities for different scenarios. We empirically demonstrate that our method matches the accuracy of human-data-driven approaches using data from seven users. When deployed, the method accurately infers intended targets in challenging 3D pointing conditions within 5–10 milliseconds, reducing users’ target-selection error by 71% and completion time by 35%.

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target inference, Target selection, biomechanical simulation, amortized inference

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Moon, H-S, Liao, Y-C, Li, C, Lee, B & Oulasvirta, A 2024, Real-time 3D Target Inference via Biomechanical Simulation . in F F Mueller, P Kyburz, J R Williamson, C Sas, M L Wilson, P Toups Dugas & I Shklovski (eds), CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ., 719, ACM, ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 11/05/2024 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642131