Mutual Proximity Awareness in Immersive Multi-User Virtual Environments with Real Walking
| dc.contributor.author | Podkosova, Iana | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Kaufmann, Hannes | en_US |
| dc.contributor.editor | Masataka Imura and Pablo Figueroa and Betty Mohler | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-28T06:32:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-10-28T06:32:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Are users aware of each other in an immersive multi-user virtual environment if they cannot see or hear each other? We present a study on users' awareness of other users who share the same physical space. The goal of our research is to investigate proximity awareness when walking in multi-user virtual environments. The high degree of immersion in our virtual environment is achieved through the use of a head-mounted display and real walking in a large tracked space. In our experiment, pairs of participants are required to walk on pre-defined paths towards or side by side to each other and point at their test partners if they feel their presence. Our results show that 1/3 of the participants who had a-priori knowledge about the possible proximity of their test partners could notice their test partners during the experiment at a distance shorter than 1m. The test subjects who did not have any a-priori knowledge proved to be not aware of other users. | en_US |
| dc.description.sectionheaders | Full Papers | en_US |
| dc.description.seriesinformation | ICAT-EGVE 2015 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.2312/egve.20151317 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-905674-84-2 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1727-530X | en_US |
| dc.identifier.pages | 109-116 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.2312/egve.20151317 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The Eurographics Association | en_US |
| dc.subject | I.3.7 [Computer Graphics] | en_US |
| dc.subject | Virtual Reality | en_US |
| dc.subject | H.5.2 [Information interfaces and presentation] | en_US |
| dc.subject | Interaction styles | en_US |
| dc.subject | Evaluation/methodology | en_US |
| dc.title | Mutual Proximity Awareness in Immersive Multi-User Virtual Environments with Real Walking | en_US |
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