The Effectiveness of Locomotion Interfaces Depends on Self-Motion Cues, Environmental Cues, and the Individual

Kelly, Jonathan W.; Gilbert, Stephen B.

doi:10.1109/vrw52623.2021.00082

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“…Triangle completion is a commonly used test of spatial updating: the process of updating selflocation during travel [18]. Triangle completion performance was best when the outbound path was traversed by walking, worse when teleporting to translate and using the body to rotate (herein referred to as partially concordant teleporting), and worse yet when teleporting to translate and rotate (herein discordant teleporting; also see [5,8,9,11]). The current study explored whether practice and feedback when teleporting would lead to improvements in navigation, as measured through triangle completion.…”

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Teleporting through virtual environments: Benefits of navigational feedback and practice

Kelly¹,

Hoover²,

Powell³

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Virtual environments (VEs) can be infinitely large, but movement of the virtual reality (VR) user is constrained by the surrounding real environment. Teleporting has become a popular locomotion interface to allow complete exploration of the VE. To teleport, the user selects the intended position (and sometimes orientation) before being instantly transported to that location. However, locomotion interfaces such as teleporting can cause disorientation. This experiment explored whether practice and feedback when using the teleporting interface can reduce disorientation. Participants traveled along two path legs through a VE before attempting to point to the path origin. Travel was completed with one of two teleporting interfaces that differed in the availability of rotational self-motion cues. Participants in the feedback condition received feedback about their pointing accuracy. For both teleporting interfaces tested, feedback caused significant improvement in pointing performance, and practice alone caused only marginal improvement. These results suggest that disorientation in VR can be reduced through feedback-based training.

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Teleporting through virtual environments: Benefits of navigational feedback and practice

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Hoover²,

Powell³

et al. 2022

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“…One recent study explored the effects of the teleporting interface on spatial updating using a triangle completion task [7]. Triangle completion performance was best when the outbound path was traversed by walking, worse when teleporting to translate and using the body to rotate (herein referred to as partially concordant teleporting), and worse yet when teleporting to translate and to rotate (herein discordant teleporting; also see [8,15,16,18]). The finding that teleporting led to worse triangle completion is not surprising, given the importance of self-motion cues to spatial updating.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Teleporting through virtual environments: benefits of navigational feedback and practice

Kelly

Powell²,

Hoover³

et al. 2022

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Virtual environments (VEs) can be infinitely large, but movement of the virtual reality (VR) user is constrained by the surrounding real environment. Teleporting has become a popular locomotion interface to allow complete exploration of the VE. To teleport, the user selects the intended position (and sometimes orientation) before being instantly transported to that location. However, locomotion interfaces such as teleporting can cause disorientation. This experiment explored whether practice and feedback when using the teleporting interface can reduce disorientation. VR headset owners participated remotely. On each trial of a triangle completion task the participant traveled along two path legs through a VE before attempting to point to the path origin. Travel was completed with one of two teleporting interfaces that differed in the availability of rotational self-motion cues. Participants in the feedback condition received feedback about their pointing accuracy. For both teleporting interfaces tested, feedback caused significant improvement in pointing performance, and practice alone caused only marginal improvement. These results suggest that disorientation in VR can be reduced through feedback-based training.

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The Effectiveness of Locomotion Interfaces Depends on Self-Motion Cues, Environmental Cues, and the Individual

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

Teleporting through virtual environments: Benefits of navigational feedback and practice

Teleporting through virtual environments: Benefits of navigational feedback and practice

Teleporting through virtual environments: benefits of navigational feedback and practice

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