Therminator: Understanding the Interdependency of Visual and On-Body Thermal Feedback in Virtual Reality

Günther, Sebastian; Müller, Florian; Schön, Dominik; Elmoghazy, Omar; Mühlhäuser, Max; Schmitz, Martin

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376195

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“…In VR, people can even feel the temperature by wearing special-made temperaturesensitive clothing [50]. While this is currently mainly used in the area of games, there is no reason that it cannot be applied to the field of landscape architecture.…”

Section: Suggested Areas Of Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Microclimate into Landscape Architecture for Outdoor Thermal Comfort: A Systematic Review

Lin

Brown

2021

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Global climate change and urban heat island intensification are making many cities dangerously hot during heat waves and uncomfortably hot much of the time. Research has identified ways that urban environments can be designed to reduce the heat, but much of the information is too technical or has not been interpreted or communicated so as to be available to landscape architects. This study identifies ways that landscape architecture researchers have applied microclimate information in design to proactively create more thermally comfortable outdoor environments. A systematic review that assessed the growing recognition of microclimatic factors in design revealed four main approaches: principles and guidelines, strategies, mapping, and evaluation. The advantages and limitations of each have been noted, and a diagram has been developed that matches each approach with specific steps in the landscape architectural design process. The study also identified four areas where microclimate has potential for use in landscape architecture but that are currently not being very actively studied: modeling and visualization, education, policy, and ideation. Microclimatic design has the potential to enhance the health and well-being of the public through the design of thermally comfortable outdoor environments.

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Section: Suggested Areas Of Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Microclimate into Landscape Architecture for Outdoor Thermal Comfort: A Systematic Review

Lin

Brown

2021

Land

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“…Several AR/VR studies [13]- [16] have shown the possibility of changing user perception by leveraging VFX as visual stimuli. Weir et al [17] and Erickson et al [18] presented that hot or cold VFX could influence the sense of the body temperature.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For each condition, VHs asked participants to do the survey, which was Visual effects taxonomy to be used in our experiment. We reviewed the previous AR/VR researches [4], [13], [14], [17], [18], [27]- [42] and classified color (Low, High) and form (Exaggerated, Diminished) as 2 × 2 matrices with respect to VFX's visibility.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Impacts of Visual Effects on User Perception With a Virtual Human in Augmented Reality Conflict Situations

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Virtual humans (VHs) in augmented reality (AR) can provide users an illusory sense of being together in the real space. However, such an illusion can easily break when the augmented VH conflicts (or is overlaid) with the real objects. Recent spatial understanding technology is starting to make physically plausible VHs in response to collisions, but there are still limitations (e.g., resolution, accuracy) and inevitable conflict situations (e.g., unexpected passer-by), especially in daily life. Moreover, depending on the situation, VH's plausible behavior to avoid collision may rather interfere with the original interaction with the users. In this paper, we investigate three such situations: (1) when VH appears in a room through a closed door, (2) when the VH's body overlaps with static real objects, and (3) when a real moving object passes through the VH. While we considered (2) as an avoidable situation where physically plausible behaviors of VHs might be required, (1) and (3) were considered as inevitable situations (e.g., VH appearing out of nowhere, or passer-by cannot be aware of a virtual being), and we may not present VH's plausible behaviors, so alternatives might be required. Thus, for each of these notable situations in AR, we tested different visual effects as presentation methods for physical conflicts between a VH and real objects. Our findings indicate that visual effects improve VH's social/co-presence and physicality depending on the situations and effect types as well as influence users' attention/social behaviors. We discuss the implications of our findings and future research directions.INDEX TERMS Augmented reality, pervasive AR, virtual human, visual effects, perceptual issue, physicality conflict, social presence, co-presence, inevitable collision, human perception.

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“…Contact thermal stimulations are also expanding [5,[13][14]. Others are very sophisticated [7,[15][16].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although these devices are increasingly used, they focus on the impact of multisensorial cues on parameters such as quality of experience or sense of presence [5,7,13]. There exist few studies that evaluate the performance of new devices for warm and cold sensations and conclusions are heterogeneous [15][16]. To the best of our knowledge, there is not yet a proposal that assess the acoustic disturbance during the use of these devices.…”

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Exploring Crossmodal Interaction of Tactile and Visual Cues on Temperature Perception in Virtual Reality: a Preliminary Study

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Proceedigs of the 1st Workshop on Multisensory Experiences (SensoryX 2021)

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Thanks to the digital revolution, virtual reality (VR) has getting popularity due to its capacity to immerse users into virtual environments (VEs). VEs are typically limited to visual and auditory cues; however, recent results show that multiple sensory modalities increase the user’s immersion. In this study, an experimental protocol is proposed to recreate multiple tactile, in particular thermal, sensations in VR. The aim is twofold: (1) studying the performance of different devices for creating warm and cold sensations with regards to their efficiency and acoustic disturbance; and (2) investigating the interdependency between visual and tactile stimuli in the perception of temperature. 14 participants performed two experimental studies. Our results show no acoustic disturbance of the materials used. Spot projector is more efficient than fan heater to create a warm sensation; fan + water spray is more efficient than fan alone to create cold sensation. Moreover, no significant contribution of visual cue on the thermal perception was found except for the extremely cold simulation (snow visualization and thermal stimulation performed with fan + water spray).

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Therminator: Understanding the Interdependency of Visual and On-Body Thermal Feedback in Virtual Reality

Cited by 55 publications

References 62 publications

Integrating Microclimate into Landscape Architecture for Outdoor Thermal Comfort: A Systematic Review

Integrating Microclimate into Landscape Architecture for Outdoor Thermal Comfort: A Systematic Review

The Impacts of Visual Effects on User Perception With a Virtual Human in Augmented Reality Conflict Situations

Exploring Crossmodal Interaction of Tactile and Visual Cues on Temperature Perception in Virtual Reality: a Preliminary Study

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