Ruis

Takala, Tuukka M.

doi:10.1145/2659766.2659774

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“…Takala developed RUIS, a framework to simplify the VR application development process for students. RUIS provides a spatial user interface to support different input devices for full‐body interaction.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Frameworks that support the development of interactive systems often provide an integration of different components or modules. Each component or module handles the diverse functionalities of the application such as input, tracking and networking and these can be combined in customized ways for different context . These frameworks usually follow the composition over inheritance principle in object‐oriented programming, in which classes should be polymorphic and reusable by containing instances of other classes for desired functionality, to allow developers to extend the functionality.…”

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VR‐Rides: An object‐oriented application framework for immersive virtual reality exergames

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Exercise can improve health and well-being. With this in mind, immersive virtual reality (VR) games are being developed to promote physical activity, and are generally evaluated through user studies. However, building such applications is time consuming and expensive. This paper introduces VR-Rides, an object-oriented application framework focused on the development of experiment-oriented VR exergames. Following the modular programming pattern, this framework facilitates the integration of different hardware (such as VR devices, sensors, and physical activity devices) within immersive VR experiences that overlay game narratives on Google Street View panoramas. Combining software engineering and interaction patterns, modules of VR-Rides can be easily added and managed in the Unity game engine. We evaluate the code efficiency and development effort across our VR exergames developed using VR-Rides. The reliability, maintainability, and usability of our framework are also demonstrated via code metrics analysis and user studies. The results show that investing in a systematic approach to reusing code and design can be a worthwhile effort for researchers beyond software engineering. K E Y W O R D Scode reuse, exergame, immersive virtual reality, object-oriented application framework, reusable component, Unity INTRODUCTIONVirtual reality (VR) software applications are useful tools for human-computer interaction (HCI) studies that require users to be immersed in a controlled environment. There are an increasing number of freely available software tools, plug-ins, programming libraries, and packages that employ recent advances in VR for use by the HCI research community. One such example is VR exercise video games (exergames), with different VR exergames used in physical education classes, 1,2 physical health in older adults, 3,4 and physical rehabilitation and therapy. 5,6 These applications are expected to be employed, integrated and improved by researchers and developers in their HCI projects, thus reducing the time, effort, and cost for creating customized applications. But the commercial VR systems, generally games, used are not systematically engineered to be adapted by researchers or to run research studies. For example, VR systems and games focus primarily on enhancing the immersion and enjoyment of user wearing the head-mounted display (HMD), which ignores the collaboration of non-HMD user. In order to study the interaction in collaborative VR, Gugenheimer et al 7 built a system with VR platform, projectors, gamepad, and Softw: Pract Exper. 2020;50:1305-1324.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/spe

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VR‐Rides: An object‐oriented application framework for immersive virtual reality exergames

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“…Zigelbaum et al based their work in RBI: "We wanted to base g-stalt as much upon real-world phenomena as possible following the guidelines of Reality-Based Interaction [RBI]. By rooting the interaction design in conventional phenomena such as inertia, persistence in space, and solid geometry we designed the actions in g-stalt to mimic the real world," while Takala [78]…”

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The Reality of Reality-Based Interaction

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ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Frameworks such as Direct Manipulation or Instrumental Interaction have been an important force in HCI research. Evaluating the impact of frameworks can identify whether and how a framework was used, how it has evolved, and what trends have developed over time. However, studying the impact of such theoretical contributions requires consideration of various perspectives and level of impact. As a case study for investigating the impact of theoretical work in HCI, we present our evaluation of the impact of the Reality Based Interaction (RBI) framework, introduced by the authors in 2008. We provide our findings about the impact of the framework both on contemporary research, through content-based citation analysis, and in HCI education, through a survey we conducted on emerging interaction frameworks. The article contributes a comprehensive methodology for evaluating the impact of frameworks through our twofold approach: content-based citation analysis, including the design of a new citation typology; and a survey on the use of frameworks in education using a taxonomy of learning goals. We also consider the role of frameworks in HCI as well as the future of the RBI framework. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models; • Information systems → Link and co-citation analysis; • Social and professional topics → Computing education;

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“…Due to this, the developers of VR applications have to take these differences into account (Sutcliffe et al 2019), and the focus should be on user-centric development (Drettakis et al 2007). To help users with HCI, a toolkit was developed by Takala (2014) which makes it easier to create VR applications using building blocks. With it, applications can be created for HMDs.…”

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Investigation of spatial ability test completion times in virtual reality using a desktop display and the Gear VR

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The interaction time of students who did spatial ability tests in a virtual reality environment is analyzed. The spatial ability test completion times of 240 and 61 students were measured. A desktop display as well as the Gear VR were used by the former group and by the latter one, respectively. Logistic regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship between the probability of correct answers and completion times, while linear regression was used to evaluate effects and interactions of following factors on test completion times: the users’ gender and primary hand, test type and device used. The findings were that while the completion times are not significantly affected by the users’ primary hand, other factors have significant effects on them: they are decreased by the male gender in itself, while they are increased by solving Mental Rotation Tests or by using the Gear VR. The largest significant increment in interaction time in virtual reality during spatial ability tests is when Mental Rotation Tests are accomplished by males with the Gear VR, while the largest significant decrease in interaction time is when Mental Cutting Tests are completed with a desktop display.

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Ruis

Cited by 28 publications

References 26 publications

VR‐Rides: An object‐oriented application framework for immersive virtual reality exergames

VR‐Rides: An object‐oriented application framework for immersive virtual reality exergames

The Reality of Reality-Based Interaction

Investigation of spatial ability test completion times in virtual reality using a desktop display and the Gear VR

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