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Cone&Bubble: Evaluating Combinations of Gaze, Head and Hand Pointing for Target Selection in Dense 3D Environments

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Cone&Bubble: Evaluating Combinations of Gaze, Head and Hand Pointing for Target Selection in Dense 3D Environments. / Sidenmark, Ludwig; Sun, Zibo; Gellersen, Hans.
2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). IEEE, 2024. p. 642-649.

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Sidenmark, L, Sun, Z & Gellersen, H 2024, Cone&Bubble: Evaluating Combinations of Gaze, Head and Hand Pointing for Target Selection in Dense 3D Environments. in 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). IEEE, pp. 642-649. https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW62533.2024.00126

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Sidenmark, L., Sun, Z., & Gellersen, H. (2024). Cone&Bubble: Evaluating Combinations of Gaze, Head and Hand Pointing for Target Selection in Dense 3D Environments. In 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 642-649). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW62533.2024.00126

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Sidenmark L, Sun Z, Gellersen H. Cone&Bubble: Evaluating Combinations of Gaze, Head and Hand Pointing for Target Selection in Dense 3D Environments. In 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). IEEE. 2024. p. 642-649 Epub 2024 Mar 16. doi: 10.1109/VRW62533.2024.00126

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Sidenmark, Ludwig ; Sun, Zibo ; Gellersen, Hans. / Cone&Bubble : Evaluating Combinations of Gaze, Head and Hand Pointing for Target Selection in Dense 3D Environments. 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). IEEE, 2024. pp. 642-649

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