TY - GEN
T1 - A taxonomy for deploying redirection techniques in immersive virtual environments
AU - Suma, Evan A.
AU - Bruder, Gerd
AU - Steinicke, Frank
AU - Krum, David M.
AU - Bolas, Mark
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Natural walking can provide a compelling experience in immersive virtual environments, but it remains an implementation challenge due to the physical space constraints imposed on the size of the virtual world. The use of redirection techniques is a promising approach that relaxes the space requirements of natural walking by manipulating the user's route in the virtual environment, causing the real world path to remain within the boundaries of the physical workspace. In this paper, we present and apply a novel taxonomy that separates redirection techniques according to their geometric flexibility versus the likelihood that they will be noticed by users. Additionally, we conducted a user study of three reorientation techniques, which confirmed that participants were less likely to experience a break in presence when reoriented using the techniques classified as subtle in our taxonomy. Our results also suggest that reorientation with change blindness illusions may give the impression of exploring a more expansive environment than continuous rotation techniques, but at the cost of negatively impacting spatial knowledge acquisition.
AB - Natural walking can provide a compelling experience in immersive virtual environments, but it remains an implementation challenge due to the physical space constraints imposed on the size of the virtual world. The use of redirection techniques is a promising approach that relaxes the space requirements of natural walking by manipulating the user's route in the virtual environment, causing the real world path to remain within the boundaries of the physical workspace. In this paper, we present and apply a novel taxonomy that separates redirection techniques according to their geometric flexibility versus the likelihood that they will be noticed by users. Additionally, we conducted a user study of three reorientation techniques, which confirmed that participants were less likely to experience a break in presence when reoriented using the techniques classified as subtle in our taxonomy. Our results also suggest that reorientation with change blindness illusions may give the impression of exploring a more expansive environment than continuous rotation techniques, but at the cost of negatively impacting spatial knowledge acquisition.
KW - Virtual environments
KW - redirection
KW - taxonomy
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U2 - 10.1109/VR.2012.6180877
DO - 10.1109/VR.2012.6180877
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860783329
SN - 9781467312462
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality
SP - 43
EP - 46
BT - IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2012, VR 2012 - Proceedings
T2 - 19th IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, VR 2012
Y2 - 4 March 2012 through 8 March 2012
ER -