Tactile and kinesthetic feedbacks improve distance perception in virtual reality

Makin, Lawrence; Barnaby, Gareth; Roudaut, Anne

doi:10.1145/3366550.3372248

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“…As opposed to the previous definition of "navigation", based on vision cues, an "exploration" task consists in the ability to touch the environment and understand its constraints. Exploring thoroughly an environment in VR can be done through different haptic features, and can improve the users depth perception [98] or distances to an object. The different methods for exploring the environment are detailed in Section 6.…”

Section: Explorationmentioning

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“Can I Touch This?”: Survey of Virtual Reality Interactions via Haptic Solutions

Bouzbib¹,

Bailly²,

Haliyo³

et al. 2021

32e Conférence Francophone Sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine

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Haptic feedback has become crucial to enhance the user experiences in Virtual Reality (VR). This justifies the sudden burst of novel haptic solutions proposed these past years in the HCI community. This article is a survey of Virtual Reality interactions, relying on haptic devices. We propose two dimensions to describe and compare the current haptic solutions: their degree of physicality, as well as their degree of actuation. We depict a compromise between the user and the designer, highlighting how the range of required or proposed stimulation in VR is opposed to the haptic interfaces flexibility and their deployment in real-life use-cases. This paper (1) outlines the variety of haptic solutions and provides a novel perspective for analysing their associated interactions, (2) highlights the limits of the current evaluation criteria regarding these interactions, and finally (3) reflects the interaction, operation and conception potentials of "encountered-type of haptic devices". CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Virtual reality; Haptic devices; Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms.

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Section: Explorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Can I Touch This?”: Survey of Virtual Reality Interactions via Haptic Solutions

Bouzbib¹,

Bailly²,

Haliyo³

et al. 2021

32e Conférence Francophone Sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine

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“…It also utilizes the vestibular sense (located in the semi-circular canals in the inner ear for perceiving the movement and position of the body) and skin senses (feeling of pressure caused by vibration). This feedback was suggested can improve perception of spatial cues in virtual reality environments [Kreimeier et al, 2019, Makin et al, 2019. Limited works have been reported on exploring the effects of adding vibration stimuli based on audio-visual contents on the sense of presence during passive experience [Danieau et al, 2012a, Danieau et al, 2014.…”

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Multimodality for Passive Experience: Effects of Visual, Auditory, Vibration and Draught Stimuli on Sense of Presence

Honegger¹,

Feng²,

Rauterberg³

2021

jucs

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Adequate use of multimodal stimuli plays a crucial role in help forming the sense of presence within a virtual environment. While most of the presence research attempts to engage more sensory modalities to induce a higher sense of presence, this paper investigates the relevance of each sensory modality and different combinations on the subjective sense of presence using a specifically designed scenario of a passive experience. We chose a neutral test scenario of “waiting at a train station while a train is passing by” to avoid the potential influence of story narrative on mental presence and replicated realistic multimodal stimuli that are highly relevant to our test setting. All four stimuli - visual, auditory, vibration, and draught - with 16 possibilities of combinations were systematically evaluated with 24 participants. The evaluation was performed on one crucial aspect of presence – “realness” to reflect user presence in general. The perceived realism value was assessed using a scalometer. The findings of main effects indicate that the auditory stimuli had the most significant contribution in creating the sense of presence. The results of interaction effects suggest the impact of draught stimuli is significant in relation to other stimuli - visual and auditory. Also, the gender effects revealed that the sense of presence reported by female participants is influenced by more factors than merely adding more sensory modalities.

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Simulated eye height impacts size perception differently depending on real-world posture

Ghasemi,

Harris,

Jörges

2023

Sci Rep

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Changes in perceived eye height influence visually perceived object size in both the real world and in virtual reality. In virtual reality, conflicts can arise between the eye height in the real world and the eye height simulated in a VR application. We hypothesized that participants would be influenced more by variation in simulated eye height when they had a clear expectation about their eye height in the real world such as when sitting or standing, and less so when they did not have a clear estimate of the distance between their eyes and the real-life ground plane, e.g., when lying supine. Using virtual reality, 40 participants compared the height of a red square simulated at three different distances (6, 12, and 18 m) against the length of a physical stick (38.1 cm) held in their hands. They completed this task in all combinations of four real-life postures (supine, sitting, standing, standing on a table) and three simulated eye heights that corresponded to each participant’s real-world eye height (123cm sitting; 161cm standing; 201cm on table; on average). Confirming previous results, the square’s perceived size varied inversely with simulated eye height. Variations in simulated eye height affected participants’ perception of size significantly more when sitting than in the other postures (supine, standing, standing on a table). This shows that real-life posture can influence the perception of size in VR. However, since simulated eye height did not affect size estimates less in the lying supine than in the standing position, our hypothesis that humans would be more influenced by variations in eye height when they had a reliable estimate of the distance between their eyes and the ground plane in the real world was not fully confirmed.

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Tactile and kinesthetic feedbacks improve distance perception in virtual reality

Cited by 4 publications

References 22 publications

“Can I Touch This?”: Survey of Virtual Reality Interactions via Haptic Solutions

“Can I Touch This?”: Survey of Virtual Reality Interactions via Haptic Solutions

Multimodality for Passive Experience: Effects of Visual, Auditory, Vibration and Draught Stimuli on Sense of Presence

Simulated eye height impacts size perception differently depending on real-world posture

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