Evaluation of the Leap Motion Controller As a New Contact-free Pointing Device

Overview

Journal Sensors (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2015 Jan 23

PMID 25609043

Citations 19

Authors

Daniel Bachmann

Frank Weichert

Gerhard Rinkenauer

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Abstract

This paper presents a Fitts' law-based analysis of the user's performance in selection tasks with the Leap Motion Controller compared with a standard mouse device. The Leap Motion Controller (LMC) is a new contact-free input system for gesture-based human-computer interaction with declared sub-millimeter accuracy. Up to this point, there has hardly been any systematic evaluation of this new system available. With an error rate of 7.8% for the LMC and 2.8% for the mouse device, movement times twice as large as for a mouse device and high overall effort ratings, the Leap Motion Controller's performance as an input device for everyday generic computer pointing tasks is rather limited, at least with regard to the selection recognition provided by the LMC.

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