The VR Scooter: Wind and Tactile Feedback Improve User Performance

Deligiannidis, Leonidas; Jacob, Robert J. K.

doi:10.1109/vr.2006.131

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“…An additional wind setup was e.g. implemented by Deligiannidis and Jacob [4]. It was used to improve speed perception as the user was navigating in a 3D-world with a scooter.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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The Visual, the Auditory and the Haptic – A User Study on Combining Modalities in Virtual Worlds

Fröhlich

Wachsmuth

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In order to make a step further towards understanding the impact of multi-modal stimuli in Virtual Reality we conducted a user study with 80 participants performing tasks in a virtual pit environment. Participants were divided into four groups, each presented a different combination of multi-sensory stimuli. Those included real-time 3D graphics, audio stimuli (ambient, static and event sounds), and haptics consisting of wind and tactile feedback when touching objects. A presence questionnaire was used to evaluate subjectively reported presence on the one hand, and on the other physiological sensors were used to measure heart rate and skin conductance as an objective measure. Results strongly indicate that an increase of modalities does not automatically result in an increase of presence.

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“…An additional wind setup was e.g. implemented by Deligiannidis and Jacob [4]. It was used to improve speed perception as the user was navigating in a 3D-world with a scooter.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Visual, the Auditory and the Haptic – A User Study on Combining Modalities in Virtual Worlds

Fröhlich

Wachsmuth

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Examples include treadmills (e.g., the Virtuix Omni m ) that allow the user to "walk in place" and cross unlimited virtual distances without moving in the real world, VR gloves (e.g., the DG5-VHand glove n ) that allow for the tracking of hand and finger movement, allowing users to grasp and manipulate virtual objects, and motion capture systems that allow for the tracking of multiple points of the body allowing for full body simulation inside the VE. More exotic examples include scent devices (Nakaizumi, et al, 2006;Yasuyuki et al, 2005), like the AromaJet o and tactile feedback systems (Scheibe, et al, 2007, Deligiannidis & Jacobs 2006, like the InerTouchHand p .…”

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Using virtual reality in criminological research

2014

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Since the pioneering early studies of the 1990s hinted at its promise as a research method, virtual reality (VR) technology has increasingly been used by social scientists. Given recent developments that have greatly enhanced realism, reduced costs, and increased possibilities for application, VR seems well on its way to become an established research tool in the social sciences. However, as with other methodological innovations, the field of criminology has been slow to catch on. To address this gap, this article explores the potential of VR as a tool for crime research. It provides readers with a brief and non-technical description of VR and its main elements and reviews several applications of VR in social scientific research that are potentially relevant for criminologists. By way of illustration, we identify and discuss in more detail different areas in which we think the field of criminology can particularly benefit from VR and offer suggestions for research. Some of the equipment available on the consumer market is also reviewed. In conjunction, the different sections should equip readers interested in applying VR in their own research with a fundamental understanding of what it entails and how it can be applied.

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“…Tactile interfaces have been used to enhance the realism, or the sense of presence, of virtual events such as tapping (e.g., Okamura, Cutkosky, & Dennerlein, 2001), handling contacts (Lindeman, Templeman, Sibert, & Cutler, 2002), and even driving a scooter (Deligiannidis, 2005;Deligiannidis & Jacob, 2006) in a virtual environment (see also Hoffman, 1998;Hoffman, Hollander, Schroder, Rousseau, & Furness, 1998;Kontarinis & Howe, 1995;see Carlin, Hoffman, & Weghorst, 1997, for the use of tactile stimuli in virtual reality environments to treat certain phobias). Tactile stimulation, in the form of haptic interfaces, has also been adopted in concert with stimulation from other sensory modalities in order to provide reliable feedback in a variety of different interface settings, such as, for example, in mouse-pointing tasks (e.g., Akamatsu, MacKenzie, & Hasbroucq, 1995; see also Cockburn & Brewster, 2005;Hoffman et al, 1998;Vitense, Jacko, & Emery, 2003).…”

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The Body Surface as a Communication System: The State of the Art after 50 Years

Gallace

Tan

Spence

2007

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

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The suggestion that the body surface might be used as an additional means of presenting information to human-machine operators has been around in the literature for nearly 50 years. Although recent technological advances have made the possibility of using the body as a receptive surface much more realistic, the fundamental limitations on the human information processing of tactile stimuli presented across the body surface are, however, still largely unknown. This literature review provides an overview of studies that have attempted to use vibrotactile interfaces to convey information to human operators. The importance of investigating any possible central cognitive limitations (i.e., rather than the peripheral limitations, such as related to sensory masking, that were typically addressed in earlier research) on tactile processing for the most effective design of body interfaces is highlighted. The applicability of the constraints emerging from studies of tactile processing under conditions of unisensory (i.e., purely tactile) stimulus presentation, to more ecologically valid conditions of multisensory stimulation, is also discussed. Finally, the results obtained from recent studies of tactile information processing under conditions of multisensory stimulation are described, and their implications for haptic/tactile interface design elucidated. IntroductionWe chose to begin this paper with a quote from one of the first and foremost researchers to have systematically approached the problem of cutaneous communication using the body surface. The quote, dating from 1960, and the paper from which the quote was taken, nicely highlight the novel interest in the topic as well as the technological constraints limiting the study of tactile information processing across the body at the time that Frank Geldard was writing. What's more, the choice of the date for such a citation is by no means accidental, given that in 1960 a group of investigators conferred at Fort Knox, Kentucky in order to discuss the basic problems associated with any attempt to communicate through the skin (see Hawkes, 1960, for a summary of the papers presented at that symposium). Therefore, we believe that 1960 can, in some sense, be taken to represent the "symbolic" birth of the first extensive research in this field. The place of the meeting was by no means coincidental either, given the strategic importance at that time (and even today), of studying novel means of communication for both military and civilian purposes.Nearly 50 years later, technology has moved on a long way, and a new wave of interest has recently started to resurface regarding the theoretical and practical ad-

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The VR Scooter: Wind and Tactile Feedback Improve User Performance

Cited by 24 publications

References 15 publications

The Visual, the Auditory and the Haptic – A User Study on Combining Modalities in Virtual Worlds

The Visual, the Auditory and the Haptic – A User Study on Combining Modalities in Virtual Worlds

Using virtual reality in criminological research

The Body Surface as a Communication System: The State of the Art after 50 Years

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