Re-Evaluating VR User Awareness Needs During Bystander Interactions

Abstract

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The Social Impact of Extended Reality Spatial Productivity in Constrained, Public and Passenger Spaces

“…This choice would have a dramatic impact on the ergonomics and comfort of the workspace layouts, with avoiders for example having to place displays lower or higher than was normally comfortable to view them. Indeed, awareness of others and the surrounding environment continues to be a pressing concern when using XR in shared, public spaces [4,16], particularly when there are prospective bystanders [18] or there is a need to self-manage your journey by paying at-tention to environmental cues such as signs or auditory notices [1], as well as impacting perceptions of passenger safety [1,19], and the more that productivity tasks occlude our underlying reality, the greater these concerns may be.…”