Medical Xpress April 25, 2025
Once seen as a novelty, virtual reality (VR) technology has dramatically improved over the years and is now used widely in fields including health care, manufacturing and training.
To improve VR systems, researchers have focused on how the size, location and distance of VR interface elements, known as targets, affect user performance. For instance, users can interact with larger and nearer targets more quickly and effectively than those that are smaller or farther away.
Until now, however, little research has investigated how these elements affect users physically.
A study by ergonomics expert Jeong Ho “Jay” Kim, Ph.D., with the Texas A&M University School of Public Health, and others is among the few to evaluate how target size affects user neck...
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