FlowMatic: An Immersive Authoring Tool for Creating Interactive Scenes in Virtual Reality

Zhang, Lei; Oney, Steve

doi:10.1145/3379337.3415824

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“…• "[...] the advances of WebVR have also given rise to libraries and frameworks such as Three.js and A-FRAME, which enable developers to build VR scenes as web applications that can be loaded by web browsers" [8];…”

Section: Democratizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards Sustainable Virtual Reality: Gathering Design Guidelines for Intuitive Authoring Tools

Chamusca¹,

Ferreira²,

Murari³

et al. 2023

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Virtual reality experiences are frequently created using game engines, yet they are not simple for novices and unskilled professionals who don’t have programming and 3D modeling skills. Concurrently, there is a knowledge gap in software project design for intuitive virtual reality authoring tools, which were supposed to be easier to use. This work compiles design guidelines derived from a systematic literature review to contribute in the development of more intuitive virtual reality authoring tools. We searched the Scopus and Web of Science databases for works published between 2018 and 2021 and discovered 14 papers. We compiled 14 requirement and feature design guidelines, such as Visual Programming, Immersive Authoring, Reutilization, Sharing and Collaboration, Metaphors, and Movement Freedom, among others. The collected guidelines have the potential to either guide the development of new authoring tools or to evaluate the intuitiveness of existing tools. Furthermore, they can also support the development of the metaverse, since virtual content creation is one of its bases.

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Section: Democratizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• "FlowMatic is open source and publicly available for other researchers to build on and evaluate" [8];…”

Section: Democratizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Sustainable Virtual Reality: Gathering Design Guidelines for Intuitive Authoring Tools

Chamusca¹,

Ferreira²,

Murari³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…The goal of this usability questionnaire is to capture the participants' subjective attitudes towards StoryBuddy, including the levels of enjoyment from their use, the perceived usefulness of key automation features, the perceived difficulty of use, and the willingness of using the system to automate tasks in their real life. The design of the usability questionnaire used in our study is common in usability studies for evaluating AI-enabled task automation and creativity tools and has been used in prior work such as [40,90].…”

Section: Post-study Usability Questionnairementioning

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StoryBuddy: A Human-AI Collaborative Chatbot for Parent-Child Interactive Storytelling with Flexible Parental Involvement

Zhang,

Xu,

Wang

et al. 2022

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Despite its benefits for children's skill development and parent-child bonding, many parents do not often engage in interactive storytelling by having story-related dialogues with their child due to limited availability or challenges in coming up with appropriate questions. While recent advances made AI generation of questions from stories possible, the fully-automated approach excludes parent involvement, disregards educational goals, and underoptimizes for child engagement. Informed by need-finding interviews and participatory design (PD) results, we developed StoryBuddy, an AI-enabled system for parents to create interactive storytelling experiences. StoryBuddy's design highlighted the need for accommodating dynamic user needs between the desire for parent involvement and parent-child bonding and the goal of minimizing parent intervention when busy. The PD revealed varied assessment and educational goals of parents, which StoryBuddy addressed by supporting configuring question types and tracking child progress.A user study validated StoryBuddy's usability and suggested design insights for future parent-AI collaboration systems.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Natural language interfaces; • Social and professional topics → Children.

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“…Each simulation has various strengths, but because they were often designed with specific use cases in mind, each is also limited in different ways. Most VR systems provide high-fidelity photorealistic scenes [3], user immersion and presence that allow humancentric interaction in VR [8]. Existing simulation environments are differentiated from the other as they combine VR training functions in various domains, while others, only very few of them [4], provide realistic physics simulations on surfaces with rigid body, soft body, cloth, and fluids.…”

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MAGES 4.0: Accelerating the world's transition to VR training and democratizing the authoring of the medical metaverse

Zikas¹,

Protopsaltis²,

Kamarianakis³

et al. 2022

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In this work, we propose MAGES 4.0, a novel Software Development Kit (SDK) to accelerate the creation of collaborative medical training scenarios in VR/AR. Our solution offers a versatile authoring platform for developers to create medical simulations in a future-proof, low-code environment. MAGES breaks the boundaries between realities since students can collaborate using virtual and augmented reality devices at the same medical scene. With MAGES we provide a solution to the 150-year-old training model which is unable to meet the level of healthcare professionals needed. Our platform incorporates, among others, the following novel advancements: a) 5G edge-cloud remote rendering and physics dissection, b) realistic real-time simulation of organic tissues as soft-bodies, c) a highly realistic cutting and tearing algorithm, d) neural network assessment for user profiling and, e) a VR recorder to record and replay or resume the training simulation from any perspective.

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FlowMatic: An Immersive Authoring Tool for Creating Interactive Scenes in Virtual Reality

Cited by 58 publications

References 32 publications

Towards Sustainable Virtual Reality: Gathering Design Guidelines for Intuitive Authoring Tools

Towards Sustainable Virtual Reality: Gathering Design Guidelines for Intuitive Authoring Tools

StoryBuddy: A Human-AI Collaborative Chatbot for Parent-Child Interactive Storytelling with Flexible Parental Involvement

MAGES 4.0: Accelerating the world's transition to VR training and democratizing the authoring of the medical metaverse

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