Integrating Rocketbox Avatars with the Ubiq Social VR platform

Izzouzi, Lisa; Steed, Anthony

doi:10.1109/vrw55335.2022.00025

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“…One of the main areas that we believe needs development is the support of diverse and flexible systems for avatars for experiments. The RocketBox/MoveBox effort is a key step in this direction (Gonzalez-Franco et al, 2020a,b), which we have supported in Ubiq (Izzouzi and Steed, 2022). Much more can be done to make tools available for customising such avatars to give more variety and perhaps make them resemble participants.…”

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Lessons learnt running distributed and remote mixed reality experiments

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Archer

Brandstätter

et al. 2023

Front. Comput. Sci.

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One traditional model of research on mixed-reality systems, is the laboratory-based experiment where a number of small variants of a user experience are presented to participants under the guidance of an experimenter. This type of experiment can give reliable and generalisable results, but there are arguments for running experiments that are distributed and remote from the laboratory. These include, expanding the participant pool, reaching specific classes of user, access to a variety of equipment, and simply because laboratories might be inaccessible. However, running experiments out of the laboratory brings a different set of issues into consideration. Here, we present some lessons learnt in running eleven distributed and remote mixed-reality experiments. We describe opportunities and challenges of this type of experiment as well as some technical lessons learnt.

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Lessons learnt running distributed and remote mixed reality experiments

Steed

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Brandstätter

et al. 2023

Front. Comput. Sci.

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“…In our study, we use Rocketbox avatars to represent both participants. The Final IK employment on RocketBox Avatar in the Ubiq system is made possible through the method proposed by Izzouzi and Steed [6]. Each animation is 70 seconds in length and contains 15 movements of one avatar pointing at the appearing and disappearing targets (Figure 1, Step 4).…”

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User Motion Accentuation in Social Pointing Scenario

Guo

Izzouzi

Steed

2023

2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)

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Few existing methods produce full-body user motion in virtual environments from only the tracking from a consumer-level headmounted-display. This preliminary project generates full-body motions from the user's hands and head positions through data-based motion accentuation. The method is evaluated in a simple collaborative scenario with one Pointer, represented by an avatar, pointing at targets while an Observer interprets the Pointer's movements. The Pointer's motion is modified by our motion accentuation algorithm SocialMoves. Comparisons on the Pointer's motion are made between SocialMoves, a system built around Final IK, and a ground truth capture. Our method showed the same level of user experience as the ground truth method.

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