Expanding the Bounds of Seated Virtual Workspaces

McGill, Mark; Kehoe, Aidan; Freeman, Euan; Brewster, Stephen

doi:10.1145/3380959

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“…The strong implicit focus on non-disabled bodies is also reflected in prominent research lines within the HCI research community, focusing on optimizing the VR experience for said 'corporeal standard'. Here, 'accessibility' is often understood as improved access for non-disabled persons (e.g., [4] on movement modalities), and while features such as seated interaction are explored that would benefit the disability community (see [38]), applications predominantly target non-disabled people and do not report inclusion of disabled people within system evaluations. Likewise, certain areas of ongoing VR research -by definition -neglect people with physical disability, e.g., much of the research on full-body support for locomotion techniques for VR prioritizes walking over other modes of movement without reflecting on exclusionary consequences (e.g., see [10]).…”

Section: Vr Technology As a Proponent Of The Corporeal Standardmentioning

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A Critical Examination of Virtual Reality Technology in the Context of the Minority Body

Gerling

Spiel

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Virtual Reality (VR) holds the promise of immersing people in virtual worlds. However, initial work on the relationship between VR and disability suggests that VR is a body-centric technology that poses barriers for disabled users. We supplement this work with a theoretical analysis of immersive VR through the lens of Surrogate Body theory, a concept from media theory for the structured examination of interactive media in use. Leveraging Critical Disability Studies, particularly the theory of the Minority Body, we explore the assumptions about bodies inherent in VR, and we reflect on implications of these assumptions when disabled people engage with the technology. Our findings show that VR is an inherently ableist technology that assumes a 'corporeal standard' (i.e., an 'ideal', non-disabled human body), and fails to adequately accommodate disabled people. We conclude with implications for HCI research on VR, and discuss design approaches that foster inclusive technology development. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Accessibility theory, concepts and paradigms; Virtual reality.

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A Critical Examination of Virtual Reality Technology in the Context of the Minority Body

Gerling

Spiel

2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Despite our respondents showing a good conceptual understanding of VR, their view of its application was significantly more limited. While research often presents VR as having a wide range of applications [3,8,9,21,24,27,36,52] our respondents were significantly more limited in their range of referenced applications. Of the 99 responses in our first question which included an application of VR, 95 mentioned "video games" or "gaming" in some capacity.…”

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Surveying Consumer Understanding & Sentiment Of VR

O’Hagan

Khamis

Williamson

2021

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE '21)

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Since the resurgence of consumer-grade virtual reality (VR), VR has successfully established itself on the consumer market. As with any emerging technology, differences can exist between how industry / academia view the technology and how consumers perceive it. We present results from a survey (N=210) conducted into consumer perception and attitudes towards VR. We report sentiment towards VR is positive. We show the associations linked with VR by our respondents match the defining characteristics of VR identified by experts in the literature (a fully virtual view, immersion, and headworn technology). We identify 3 additional concepts associated with VR by our respondents: video games, futurism, and price. However, our results also show consumer expectations for VR are fixated around "VR for gaming" and suggest VR has to an extent been pigeonholed as primarily being a gaming device. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Virtual reality.

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“…Currently, productive activities can be carried out on mobile devices, such as mobile phones and laptops. However, recent progress in wireless head-mounted displays (HMDs) provides an opportunity for travellers to be productive in virtual reality (VR) beyond the limited screen size of a laptop or mobile phone [3]. HMDs enable users to completely surround themselves with VR.…”

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Rear-Seat Productivity in Virtual Reality: Investigating VR Interaction in the Confined Space of a Car

George

Ngao

et al. 2021

MTI

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Ubiquitous technology lets us work in flexible and decentralised ways. Passengers can already use travel time to be productive, and we envision even better performance and experience in vehicles with emerging technologies, such as virtual reality (VR) headsets. However, the confined physical space constrains interactions while the virtual space may be conceptually borderless. We therefore conducted a VR study (N = 33) to examine the influence of physical restraints and virtual working environments on performance, presence, and the feeling of safety. Our findings show that virtual borders make passengers touch the car interior less, while performance and presence are comparable across conditions. Although passengers prefer a secluded and unlimited virtual environment (nature), they are more productive in a shared and limited one (office). We further discuss choices for virtual borders and environments, social experience, and safety responsiveness. Our work highlights opportunities and challenges for future research and design of rear-seat VR interaction.

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Expanding the Bounds of Seated Virtual Workspaces

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Cited by 82 publications

References 87 publications

A Critical Examination of Virtual Reality Technology in the Context of the Minority Body

A Critical Examination of Virtual Reality Technology in the Context of the Minority Body

Surveying Consumer Understanding & Sentiment Of VR

Rear-Seat Productivity in Virtual Reality: Investigating VR Interaction in the Confined Space of a Car

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