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Performance of low vision individuals when selecting a target with head-pointing in virtual reality

Camille Bordeau (CRPN) , C\'elia Passerel (CRPN) , Ambre Denis-No\"el (LPL) , Jean-Baptiste Melmi (CRPN) , Marianne Vaugoyeau (LNC , CRPN) , Carlos Aguilar , Iliana Huyet
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Caroline Topart Fran\c{c}ois Devin Fr\'ed\'eric Matonti Pierre Kornprobst (UniCA BIOVISION) Eric Castet (CRPN)
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Patients with central visual field loss can select a 2-degree target using head-pointing in virtual reality, approaching normal performance with larger activation zones.

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The paper tests whether people who have lost central vision can still guide a cursor with head movements to select a small target shown in virtual reality. Participants had to keep the target inside an invisible activation zone around the cursor for 1.5 seconds to register a selection. Increasing the zone diameter sped up both groups, but patients needed zones roughly three times larger than controls to reach their fastest times, after which both groups performed similarly.

Core claim

Patients with CFL are able to point at a 2° target thanks to head-pointing. Their performance can get close to controls' best performance by increasing PAZ size.

What carries the argument

The pointer activation zone (PAZ), an invisible circular region centered on the head-tracked reticle whose diameter sets how closely the cursor must align with the target before the 1.5-second dwell timer begins.

If this is right

  • Selection time falls steadily as PAZ diameter grows from 0.5° to 8° for both patients and controls.
  • Patients reach their shortest selection times at an average PAZ of 3.48°, while controls do so at 1.32°.
  • When three cursors appear at once, both groups tend to use the one nearest the target.
  • Head-pointing can therefore serve as a workable input method for visually guided tasks in VR once the activation zone is sized appropriately.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Interface designers could offer an easy toggle for larger default PAZ sizes when a low-vision profile is detected.
  • The same head-pointing logic might transfer to augmented-reality glasses that overlay targets on the real world.
  • Varying dwell time or adding sound cues could be tested next to see whether even smaller PAZ sizes become usable for some patients.

Load-bearing premise

The 1.5-second dwell time and the specific virtual-reality head-tracking setup produce performance patterns that will hold in everyday real-world pointing tasks.

What would settle it

Running the identical target-selection task outside the headset, with a physical head-tracking pointer and real objects at the same visual angles, would show whether the same PAZ sizes and time improvements appear.

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Purpose: To investigate psychophysically the ability of low vision individuals with central visual field loss (CFL) to perform a visually-guided pointing task in a virtual reality environment. Methods: Patients with CFL (n=25, ages = 67-90 years) and normally-sighted controls (n=26, ages = 67-85 years) had to select a target (2{\textdegree} diameter dot) with a head-contingent cursor (6{\textdegree} diameter reticle). Target selection occurred when target was validly pointed at for 1.5 seconds. Pointing was valid when target was inside an invisible pointer activation zone (PAZ) centered on reticle. Task difficulty was decreased by increasing PAZ diameter from 0.5{\textdegree} to 8{\textdegree}. Performance was assessed by measuring the time needed to select the target. The task was also performed with an array of three simultaneously-displayed cursors. Results: Selection times decreased (from 14.1 and 8.4 seconds for patients and controls respectively) with increasing PAZ diameter and reached a similar asymptote for both groups (1.4 seconds). The rate of this decrease was smaller for patients so that PAZ diameter needed for their best performance was much larger than PAZ diameter needed for controls' best performance (average: 3.48{\textdegree} vs 1.32{\textdegree}). In the three-reticle condition, both groups tended to use the cursor closer to the target. Conclusions: Patients with CFL are able to point at a 2{\textdegree} target thanks to head-pointing. Their performance can get close to controls' best performance by increasing PAZ size. Translational relevance: This research suggests guidelines to improve the accessibility of visually-guided pointing tools for human-machine interfaces designed for low vision individuals.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reports a behavioral experiment comparing head-pointing target selection in VR between 25 patients with central visual field loss (CFL, ages 67-90) and 26 normally sighted controls (ages 67-85). Participants selected a 2° target using a 6° head-contingent reticle, with selection requiring a 1.5 s dwell time inside an invisible pointer activation zone (PAZ) whose diameter was parametrically increased from 0.5° to 8° to reduce task difficulty. Selection times decreased monotonically from 14.1 s (patients) / 8.4 s (controls) to a shared 1.4 s asymptote; patients required larger average PAZ (3.48° vs 1.32°) to reach best performance. A secondary condition with three simultaneous cursors showed both groups preferring the cursor nearest the target. The central claim is that CFL patients can acquire the target via head-pointing and that increasing PAZ size allows their performance to approach that of controls, with translational implications for accessible interfaces.

Significance. If the reported parametric results hold after statistical verification, the work supplies direct empirical evidence that head-pointing combined with adjustable activation zones can enable low-vision users to perform precise visually guided pointing tasks in VR at levels approaching normal performance. The monotonic improvement and convergence at larger PAZ sizes constitute a clear demonstration of a practical compensatory strategy. The study is strengthened by its within-subject parametric design and the inclusion of a multi-cursor condition, but its current impact is tempered by the absence of inferential statistics and variability measures needed to confirm the reliability of the group differences and asymptotes.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract/Results] Abstract/Results: The key quantitative claims—selection times of 14.1 s (patients) and 8.4 s (controls) at the smallest PAZ, convergence to a 1.4 s asymptote, and average PAZ thresholds of 3.48° versus 1.32°—are presented as point estimates without statistical tests, confidence intervals, standard deviations, or participant-level distributions. This omission prevents verification of the reported monotonic decrease and between-group convergence that underpin the central claim.
  2. [Methods] Methods: No information is provided on participant recruitment, inclusion/exclusion criteria, visual acuity or field-loss quantification for the CFL group, or how the 1.5 s dwell time and specific VR head-tracking hardware were chosen. These details are load-bearing for assessing whether the observed performance differences and PAZ requirements generalize beyond the laboratory setup.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that 'both groups tended to use the cursor closer to the target' in the three-reticle condition but supplies no quantitative measure (e.g., proportion of selections or distance statistics) to support this observation.
  2. [Abstract/Methods] Age ranges are reported but no means, standard deviations, or other demographic matching statistics are given, which would help evaluate the comparability of the two cohorts.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed comments, which have helped us identify areas where the manuscript can be strengthened. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions made to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract/Results] Abstract/Results: The key quantitative claims—selection times of 14.1 s (patients) and 8.4 s (controls) at the smallest PAZ, convergence to a 1.4 s asymptote, and average PAZ thresholds of 3.48° versus 1.32°—are presented as point estimates without statistical tests, confidence intervals, standard deviations, or participant-level distributions. This omission prevents verification of the reported monotonic decrease and between-group convergence that underpin the central claim.

    Authors: We agree that presenting these key results solely as point estimates without accompanying statistical support or variability measures reduces the ability to fully assess the reliability of the observed trends and group differences. In the revised manuscript, we have added inferential statistics (including appropriate repeated-measures analyses to confirm the monotonic decrease with PAZ size and the interaction with group), standard deviations or standard errors, confidence intervals for the reported means and thresholds, and participant-level data visualizations or summaries where space permits. These additions directly support the central claim of performance convergence at larger PAZ sizes. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Methods] Methods: No information is provided on participant recruitment, inclusion/exclusion criteria, visual acuity or field-loss quantification for the CFL group, or how the 1.5 s dwell time and specific VR head-tracking hardware were chosen. These details are load-bearing for assessing whether the observed performance differences and PAZ requirements generalize beyond the laboratory setup.

    Authors: We acknowledge that these methodological details are necessary for readers to evaluate the generalizability and replicability of the findings. The original submission emphasized the experimental paradigm but did not fully elaborate on these aspects. In the revised Methods section, we now include: the recruitment strategy and screening process; explicit inclusion and exclusion criteria; quantitative characterization of visual acuity and central field loss in the CFL participants (e.g., via acuity testing and perimetry summaries); the rationale for the 1.5 s dwell time (drawn from pilot data and prior accessibility literature); and the specific VR hardware, head-tracking system, and calibration procedures used. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical behavioral study

full rationale

This paper reports direct experimental measurements of target selection times in a VR head-pointing task for CFL patients and controls across parametrically varied PAZ diameters. No equations, models, derivations, or first-principles predictions are present; performance metrics (e.g., time to asymptote, required PAZ size) are observed outcomes from the task protocol itself. The central claims follow immediately from the reported data without any reduction to fitted inputs, self-definitions, or self-citation chains. The study is self-contained as a straightforward comparison of behavioral results.

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Empirical psychophysical study with no mathematical derivations, new theoretical entities, or fitted model parameters; relies on standard experimental design and group comparison assumptions.

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  • standard math Standard assumptions for comparing means between independent groups (e.g., approximate normality or use of appropriate non-parametric tests)
    Implicit when reporting average selection times and differences between the patient and control groups.

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