Facilitating Asymmetric Collaborative Navigation in Room-Scale Virtual Reality for Public Spaces

Sule Serubugo; Denisa Skantarova; Nicolaj Evers; Martin Kraus

Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation. 6th International Conference, ArtsIT 2017, and Second International Conference, DLI 2017, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, October 30–31, 2017, Proceedings

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Facilitating Asymmetric Collaborative Navigation in Room-Scale Virtual Reality for Public Spaces

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-76908-0_7,
    author={Sule Serubugo and Denisa Skantarova and Nicolaj Evers and Martin Kraus},
    title={Facilitating Asymmetric Collaborative Navigation in Room-Scale Virtual Reality for Public Spaces},
    proceedings={Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation. 6th International Conference, ArtsIT 2017, and Second International Conference, DLI 2017, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, October 30--31, 2017, Proceedings},
    proceedings_a={ARTSIT \& DLI},
    year={2018},
    month={3},
    keywords={Virtual reality Asymmetric collaboration Room-scale virtual reality Visualization Public spaces Computer graphics},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-319-76908-0_7}
}

Sule Serubugo
Denisa Skantarova
Nicolaj Evers
Martin Kraus
Year: 2018
Facilitating Asymmetric Collaborative Navigation in Room-Scale Virtual Reality for Public Spaces
ARTSIT & DLI
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76908-0_7

Sule Serubugo¹^,*, Denisa Skantarova¹^,*, Nicolaj Evers¹^,*, Martin Kraus¹^,*

1: Aalborg University

*Contact email: serubugo-sule@outlook.com, dskantarova@gmail.com, nevers12@student.aau.dk, martin@create.aau.dk

Abstract

This study investigates asymmetric collaboration in public room-scale Virtual Reality (VR) setups to address the isolating experience provided by single-user Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs). In our field study, participants wearing an HMD had to find their way in a virtual maze with the help of co-located participants without an HMD. The non-HMD participants could either see a mirrored HMD view, a map of the maze, or a combination of the two. We evaluated which of these three conditions facilitates more collaboration and engagement for the non-HMD participants and spectators, as well as the HMD participants. Our findings can be used when facilitating engaging asymmetric experiences for public VR setups.

Keywords: Virtual reality Asymmetric collaboration Room-scale virtual reality Visualization Public spaces Computer graphics

Published: 2018-03-08
Appears in: SpringerLink

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76908-0_7