Augmenting User Experience in Virtual Environments Through Haptic Feedback

Popovici, Dorin-Mircea; Polceanu, Mihai; Popescu, Aniela

doi:10.1145/2801081.2801100

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“…General conclusions related to usability and satisfaction were obtained through usability concerns [13], [18], [39], where the main findings pointed out usability issues, such as the system being suggested to be improved regarding comfort issues [18], or for being too heavy [16]. In some multisensory approaches, users expressed feelings described as scary and invasive (referring to taste stimulus) [28].…”

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“…Despite the fact that it was not identified any standard for usability evaluations across multisensory implementations, they presented usability understandings, valuable for similar further VR multisensory implementation indoors. Some of their insights were related to navigation efficiency [39], successfully adaptability to the developed system [16], and good usability during the interaction with the system [41]. Some limitations raised in literature are related to expectation of more satisfactory haptic interaction [18], the need for more usable, easy to learn, and efficient systems [13], some discomfort [16], and the need for evaluating these systems with non-expert users and in real-world context [13], [21].…”

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Development and Evaluation of an Outdoor Multisensory AR System for Cultural Heritage

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Enhancing tourist visits to cultural heritage sites by making use of mobile augmented reality has been a tendency in the last few years, presenting mainly audiovisual experiences. However, these explorations using only visuals and sounds, or narratives, do not allow users to be presented with, for example, a particular smell that can be important to feel engaged or to better understand the history of the site. This paper pursues the goal of creating an experience that puts the user in a scene planned to evoke several stimuli with SensiMAR prototype-a Multisensory Augmented Reality system that aims to be used in cultural heritage outdoors. When using SensiMAR, the user will be involved with visual reconstructions, surrounded by the soundscape of ancient times, and is exposed to a particular smell very common that time. Given the novelty of this proposal, ascertaining the usability of such a system was raised as a foremost demand. Thus, in addition to its development and implementation specifications, an experimental study was conducted to evaluate the usability of the system in end-users' perspective. The results obtained from random visitors of an archaeological site were analysed according to their sex, age, previous experience with augmented reality technology, and provided condition-audiovisual condition, and multisensory condition, with visual, audio, and smell stimuli. Results were collected from a total of 67 participants and show that this multisensory prototype achieved good usability results across all groups. No statistically differences were found, demonstrating good usability of the SensiMAR system regardless of their sex, age, previous experience with the technology or provided condition. INDEX TERMS Mobile Augmented Reality, Multisensory in Cultural Heritage, Usability of Multisensory AR Outdoors I. INTRODUCTION L ITERATURE supports the use of augmented reality (AR) for enhancing visitors' experiences in cultural heritage (CH) contexts for multifarious reasons. It has been demonstrated to evoke feelings of pleasure and arousal [1], to promote cultural heritage [2], to increase multicultural place meaning and openness to other cultures and traditions [3], to enable enjoyable informal learning [4] and, in addition to these social, epistemic and educational values, many other benefits came across such as economic, experiential, cultural and historical value [5]. Among the diverse AR solutions proposed and implemented in CH contexts, many of them are found as being mobile approaches, such as in urban heritage for tourism in Dublin, Ireland [6]; in travel guides

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Section: ) Multisensory Evaluationsmentioning

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Section: ) Multisensory Evaluationsmentioning

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Development and Evaluation of an Outdoor Multisensory AR System for Cultural Heritage

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“…These innovative implementations have revealed that users are willing to have multisensory experiences in CH contexts [5], as they have good impressions of multisensory interactions [11], they have increased feelings of presence [12] and they feel more involved during their visits [13]. Regarding the overall multisensory experiences, good results have been demonstrated regarding satisfaction [11]- [17], sense of presence (or immersion) [14], [15], [17]- [19], acquired knowledge and interpretation [15], [18], and value of the experience in different dimensions such as quality of the experience [11], [16], [17] or intercultural exchange [9].…”

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Multisensory Augmented Reality in Cultural Heritage: Impact of Different Stimuli on Presence, Enjoyment, Knowledge and Value of the Experience

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Little is known about the impact of the addition of each stimulus in multisensory augmented reality experiences in cultural heritage contexts. This paper investigates the impact of different sensory conditions on a user's sense of presence, enjoyment, knowledge about the cultural site, and value of the experience. Five different multisensory conditions, namely, Visual, Visual+Audio, Visual+Smell, and Visual+Audio+Smell conditions, and regular visit referred to as None condition, were evaluated by a total of 60 random visitors distributed across the specified conditions. According to the results, the addition of particular types of stimuli created a different impact on the sense of presence subscale scores, namely, on spatial presence, involvement, and experienced realism, but did not influence the overall presence score. Overall, the results revealed that the addition of stimuli improved enjoyment and knowledge scores and did not affect the value of the experience scores. We concluded that each stimulus has a differential impact on the studied variables, demonstrating that its usage should depend on the goal of the experience: smell should be used to privilege realism and spatial presence, while audio should be adopted when the goal is to elicit involvement.

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“…Immersive [6][7][8], [9][10][11], [12], [13][14], [15][16], [17], [18], [19][20], [21][22], [23][24] Non-immersive [25], [26], [27][28], [29], [30][31], [32][33], [34] Semi-immersive [35], [36][37][38][39][40], [41][42], [43], [44] In the ‗‗Museum of Pure Form'' [6][7][8] project, a virtual museum was created where users are allowed to have an immersive experience of interacting with an art piece by nestling before that art piece. A project entitled -CREATE‖ [9][10][11] was developed for creation and maneuvering of virtual worlds by using actual data source and integrating auditory and other haptic senses.…”

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“…A project entitled "Hapto-visual and Auditory Rendering," combined the senses of sight, hearing, and touch for museum visitors [30][31]. The multisensory study "The Reconstructed Historical City of Tomis," was developed to provide various assistance with the help of haptic devices in Romania [32][33]. A study on one more project to provide a multisensory experience was presented in [34].…”

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Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Research in Cultural Heritage: A Bibliometric Study

Upasani¹,

Manna²,

Ranjanikar³

2023

IJACSA

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Heritage allows us to learn about the different monuments of importance and the inherited traditions from our ancestors. However, many times the monuments get partly ruined due to natural wear and tear, sometimes due to attacks by invaders. To preserve the cultural heritage virtually, many researchers have used augmented, virtual and mixed reality for bringing ancient environments to live in those heritage sites. This study aims to identify publications related to virtual, augmented and mixed reality in cultural heritage and to present the bibliometric analysis of these studies. The research articles on virtual, augmented, and mixed reality in cultural heritage are retrieved using the Scopus database. The analysis is performed using VOSviewer and various parameters such as bibliographic coupling of the countries, publications, journals, authors, and cooccurrences of the author keywords are performed. From the analysis done in this study, it is discovered that the augmented, virtual and mixed reality research in the domain of cultural heritage is mostly concentrated in Italy and surrounding European countries. However, it is also found that the research in this domain is lagging in many countries even if those countries are the homes of various heritage sites. This study provides an extensive analysis of the recent literature related to augmented, virtual and mixed reality research in cultural heritage. This information science based analysis will help researchers to identify the prominent journals in this domain, recognize stalwarts in this field and follow their works, find out path-breaking publications to refer to, and predict the direction of future studies.

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Augmenting User Experience in Virtual Environments Through Haptic Feedback

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Development and Evaluation of an Outdoor Multisensory AR System for Cultural Heritage

Development and Evaluation of an Outdoor Multisensory AR System for Cultural Heritage

Multisensory Augmented Reality in Cultural Heritage: Impact of Different Stimuli on Presence, Enjoyment, Knowledge and Value of the Experience

Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Research in Cultural Heritage: A Bibliometric Study

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