Extended Reality for Knowledge Work in Everyday Environments

Abstract

Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR and AR) have the potential to change information work. The ability to modify the workers senses can transform everyday environments into a productive office, using portable head-mounted displays (HMDs) combined with conventional interaction devices, such as keyboards and tablets. While a stream of better, cheaper and lighter HMDs have been introduced for consumers in recent years, there are still many challenges to be addressed to allow this vision to become reality. This chapter summarizes the state of the art in the field of extended reality for knowledge work in everyday environments and proposes steps to address the open challenges.

Text Input for Non-Stationary XR Workspaces: Investigating Tap and Word-Gesture Keyboards in Virtual and Augmented Reality

“…Text input is also an essential feature of XR workspaces: It enables us to take notes, edit documents, communicate in chat programs, comment on social media platforms, browse the Internet, or authenticate with a username and password. Therefore, working in VR and AR enables high flexibility in workspace design, but also places special demands on text input technique [6,24,77]. Known from today's real office environments, the physical keyboard is a promising candidate for stationary XR workspaces with a desk [27,42,50,57].…”