Mutual Proximity Awareness in Immersive Multi-User Virtual Environments with Real Walking

dc.contributor.authorPodkosova, Ianaen_US
dc.contributor.authorKaufmann, Hannesen_US
dc.contributor.editorMasataka Imura and Pablo Figueroa and Betty Mohleren_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-28T06:32:01Z
dc.date.available2015-10-28T06:32:01Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractAre 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.sectionheadersFull Papersen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationICAT-EGVE 2015 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environmentsen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.2312/egve.20151317en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-905674-84-2en_US
dc.identifier.issn1727-530Xen_US
dc.identifier.pages109-116en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/egve.20151317en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectI.3.7 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectVirtual Realityen_US
dc.subjectH.5.2 [Information interfaces and presentation]en_US
dc.subjectInteraction stylesen_US
dc.subjectEvaluation/methodologyen_US
dc.titleMutual Proximity Awareness in Immersive Multi-User Virtual Environments with Real Walkingen_US
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