Object Acquisition and Selection in Human Computer Interaction Systems: A Review

Abstract

Object acquisition and selection are two important functions performed in most of the human computer interaction (HCI) systems. Various techniques are devised by the researchers to perform these operations and the selection of a combination of object acquisition and selection techniques for a particular HCI system has become a research issue, especially, when the user of these systems are differently abled persons. This paper presents a review on object acquisition and selection techniques used in HCI systems. It starts with the introduction to HCI systems, gives an overview on object acquisition & selection techniques, feedback modes, performing mouse analogous actions using eye blinks, the applications of HCI systems, and finally discusses challenges and issues related to these techniques.