How Video Game Locomotion Methods Affect Navigation in Virtual Environments

Paris, Richard; Klag, Joshua; Rajan, Priya Vasanth Sundara; Buck, Lauren E.; McNamara, Timothy P.; Bodenheimer, Bobby

doi:10.1145/3343036.3343131

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“…But even this difference is mitigated by the lack of significant correlation between video game hours and spatial ability measures in the current data set (but see section 2.3 for a summary of evidence for such an association). Given the fundamentally spatial nature of virtual environments and the spatial demands of locomotion interfaces for VR [5,9,28,29,32], the similarity between HMD owners and non-owners on spatial measures is good news for researchers who hope that their research involving participants from one population (e.g., HMD non-owners) will generalize to the other population (e.g., HMD owners).…”

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Who Are Virtual Reality Headset Owners? A Survey and Comparison of Headset Owners and Non-Owners

Kelly

Cherep

Lim

et al. 2021

2021 IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)

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The number of people who own a virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD) has reached a point where researchers can readily recruit HMD owners to participate remotely using their own equipment. However, HMD owners recruited online may differ from the university community members who typically participate in VR research. HMD owners (n=220) and non-owners (n=282) were recruited through two online work sites-Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Prolific-and an undergraduate participant pool. Participants completed a survey in which they provided demographic information and completed measures of HMD use, video game use, spatial ability, and motion sickness susceptibility. In the context of the populations sampled, the results provide 1) a characterization of HMD owners, 2) a snapshot of the most commonly owned HMDs, 3) a comparison between HMD owners and non-owners, and 4) a comparison among online workers and undergraduates. Significant gender differences were found: men reported lower motion sickness susceptibility and more video game hours than women, and men outperformed women on spatial tasks. Men comprised a greater proportion of HMD owners than non-owners, but after accounting for this imbalance, HMD owners did not differ appreciably from non-owners. Comparing across recruitment platform, male undergraduates outperformed male online workers on spatial tests, and female undergraduates played fewer video game hours than female online workers. The data removal rate was higher from Amazon compared to Prolific, possibly reflecting greater dishonesty. These results provide a description of HMD users that can inform researchers recruiting remote participants through online work sites. These results also signal a need for caution when comparing inperson VR research that primarily enrolls undergraduates to online VR research that enrolls online workers.

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Who Are Virtual Reality Headset Owners? A Survey and Comparison of Headset Owners and Non-Owners

Kelly

Cherep

Lim

et al. 2021

2021 IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)

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“…In all cases, teleporting leads to partial or complete discordance between movement through the VE and selfmotion cues normally associated with walking, and this discordance can cause disorientation [10]. A growing body of evidence indicates that removal of self-motion cues normally associated with walking negatively affects performance on spatial cognitive tasks [5,6,10,23,25,29,32,34]. The current project explores the spatial cognitive consequences of interface discordance when teleporting and specifically focuses on whether such consequences characterize both small-and large-scale movement, and whether environmental cues mitigate the consequences of teleporting.…”

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Teleporting through virtual environments: Effects of path scale and environment scale on spatial updating

Kelly

Ostrander

Lim

et al. 2020

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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Virtual reality systems typically allow users to physically walk and turn, but virtual environments (VEs) often exceed the available walking space. Teleporting has become a common user interface, whereby the user aims a laser pointer to indicate the desired location, and sometimes orientation, in the VE before being transported without self-motion cues. This study evaluated the influence of rotational self-motion cues on spatial updating performance when teleporting, and whether the importance of rotational cues varies across movement scale and environment scale. Participants performed a triangle completion task by teleporting along two outbound path legs before pointing to the unmarked path origin. Rotational selfmotion reduced overall errors across all levels of movement scale and environment scale, though it also introduced a slight bias toward under-rotation. The importance of rotational self-motion was exaggerated when navigating large triangles and when the surrounding environment was large. Navigating a large triangle within a small VE brought participants closer to surrounding landmarks and boundaries, which led to greater reliance on piloting (landmark-based navigation) and therefore reduced-but did not eliminatethe impact of rotational self-motion cues. These results indicate that rotational self-motion cues are important when teleporting, and that navigation can be improved by enabling piloting.

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Who Are Virtual Reality Headset Owners? A Survey and Comparison of Headset Owners and Non-Owners

Kelly¹,

Cherep²,

Lim³

et al. 2021

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The number of people who own a virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD) has reached a point where researchers can readily recruit HMD owners to participate remotely using their own equipment. However, HMD owners recruited online may differ from the university community members who typically participate in VR research. HMD owners (n=220) and non-owners (n=282) were recruited through two online work sites---Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Prolific---and an undergraduate participant pool. Participants completed a survey in which they provided demographic information and completed measures of HMD use, video game use, spatial ability, and motion sickness susceptibility. In the context of the populations sampled, the results provide 1) a characterization of HMD owners, 2) a snapshot of the most commonly owned HMDs, 3) a comparison between HMD owners and non-owners, and 4) a comparison among online workers and undergraduates. Significant gender differences were found: men reported lower motion sickness susceptibility and more video game hours than women, and men outperformed women on spatial tasks. Men comprised a greater proportion of HMD owners than non-owners, but after accounting for this imbalance, HMD owners did not differ appreciably from non-owners. Comparing across recruitment platform, male undergraduates outperformed male online workers on spatial tests, and female undergraduates played fewer video game hours than female online workers. The data removal rate was higher from Amazon compared to Prolific, possibly reflecting greater dishonesty. These results provide a description of HMD users that can inform researchers recruiting remote participants through online work sites. These results also signal a need for caution when comparing in-person VR research that primarily enrolls undergraduates to online VR research that enrolls online workers.

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How Video Game Locomotion Methods Affect Navigation in Virtual Environments

Cited by 30 publications

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Who Are Virtual Reality Headset Owners? A Survey and Comparison of Headset Owners and Non-Owners

Who Are Virtual Reality Headset Owners? A Survey and Comparison of Headset Owners and Non-Owners

Teleporting through virtual environments: Effects of path scale and environment scale on spatial updating

Who Are Virtual Reality Headset Owners? A Survey and Comparison of Headset Owners and Non-Owners

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