Interaction Fidelity: The Uncanny Valley of Virtual Reality Interactions

McMahan, Ryan P.; Lai, Chengyuan; Pal, Swaroop K.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-39907-2_6

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“…Locomotion WIP proved to be the most natural locomotion technique from the ones that were tested in our pre-study, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't come with drawbacks that need to be discussed. McMahans Framework for Interaction Fidelity Analysis (FIFA) rates WIP slightly above mid-fidelity and found that mid-fidelity interactions mostly perform worse than high-as well as low-fidelity interaction [22,23]. Although their implementation differed slightly from ours we would rate our implementation similarly and see the following challenges for pedestrian navigation: The movement times in figure 3 suggest that participants were overall faster in the VR conditions compared to the RL conditions.…”

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Comparing Pedestrian Navigation Methods in Virtual Reality and Real Life

Savino

Emanuel

Kowalzik

et al. 2019

2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

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Mobile navigation apps are among the most used mobile applications and are often used as a baseline to evaluate new mobile navigation technologies in field studies. As field studies often introduce external factors that are hard to control for, we investigate how pedestrian navigation methods can be evaluated in virtual reality (VR). We present a study comparing navigation methods in real life (RL) and VR to evaluate if VR environments are a viable alternative to RL environments when it comes to testing these. In a series of studies, participants navigated a real and a virtual environment using a paper map and a navigation app on a smartphone. We measured the differences in navigation performance, task load and spatial knowledge acquisition between RL and VR.From these we formulate guidelines for the improvement of pedestrian navigation systems in VR like improved legibility for small screen devices. We furthermore discuss appropriate low-cost and low-space VR-locomotion techniques and discuss more controllable locomotion techniques.

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Comparing Pedestrian Navigation Methods in Virtual Reality and Real Life

Savino

Emanuel

Kowalzik

et al. 2019

2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

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“…Despite great expectations and enthusiasm, it remains to be seen if users experience an immersive environment with IJ, and in what fashion the UX is improved by the new forms of heightened immersion (McMahan et al, 2016). Despite the term’s wide use in both academia and industry, it remains unclear as to what immersion means and how it is represented in the context of users.…”

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Exploring immersive experience in journalism

Shin

Biocca²

2017

New Media & Society

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Although virtual reality (VR) has been widely used to deliver news stories in immersive journalism (IJ), it is not clear how people are actually experiencing these stories and their contexts. Focusing on the immersion feature of VR stories, this study explicates the user experience to determine what it is like to experience news stories in VR and how immersion improves viewing experiences in IJ. This study proposes a VR experience model in the IJ context that integrates cognitive, affective, and behavioral factors as the primary influencing determinants. The results indicate that the meaning of immersion strongly depends on the users’ traits and contexts and that the function of immersion is strongly determined by the users’ own cognition and intentions. VR stories are viewed and accepted based on the manner that users imagine and intend to experience them. The model demonstrates the users’ cognitive processes of experiencing quality, value, and satisfaction, which determine how people empathize with and embody VR stories. The results confirm the relationship between immersion and both empathy and embodiment, implying a new conceptualization of immersion in the IJ context.

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“…Subjects reported an experience of "inaccurate friction, " which caused objects to slip out of the virtual hand more often than they would have in RW. Unrealistic physics in object interactions in VR has been shown to have a negative impact on a user's experience (Lin et al, 2016;McMahan et al, 2016;Höll et al, 2018). This lack of accurate physics causes a mismatch between the user's perception of what should happen and what they are seeing.…”

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Comparison of Dexterous Task Performance in Virtual Reality and Real-World Environments

Joyner¹,

Vaughn-Cooke²,

Benz³

2021

Front. Virtual Real.

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Virtual reality is being used to aid in prototyping of advanced limb prostheses with anthropomorphic behavior and user training. A virtual version of a prosthesis and testing environment can be programmed to mimic the appearance and interactions of its real-world counterpart, but little is understood about how task selection and object design impact user performance in virtual reality and how it translates to real-world performance. To bridge this knowledge gap, we performed a study in which able-bodied individuals manipulated a virtual prosthesis and later a real-world version to complete eight activities of daily living. We examined subjects' ability to complete the activities, how long it took to complete the tasks, and number of attempts to complete each task in the two environments. A notable result is that subjects were unable to complete tasks in virtual reality that involved manipulating small objects and objects flush with the table, but were able to complete those tasks in the real world. The results of this study suggest that standardization of virtual task environment design may lead to more accurate simulation of real-world performance.

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Interaction Fidelity: The Uncanny Valley of Virtual Reality Interactions

Cited by 73 publications

References 11 publications

Comparing Pedestrian Navigation Methods in Virtual Reality and Real Life

Comparing Pedestrian Navigation Methods in Virtual Reality and Real Life

Exploring immersive experience in journalism

Comparison of Dexterous Task Performance in Virtual Reality and Real-World Environments

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