Evaluating collision avoidance effects on discomfort in virtual environments

Nick Sohre; Charlie MacKin; Victoria Interrante; Stephen J Guy

doi:10.1109/VHCIE.2017.7935624

Evaluating collision avoidance effects on discomfort in virtual environments

Nick Sohre, Charlie MacKin, Victoria Interrante, Stephen J Guy

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Abstract

Dynamic, moving characters are increasingly a part of interactive virtual experiences enabled by immersive display technologies such as head-mounted displays (HMDs). In this new context, it is important to consider the impact their behavior has on user experiences. Here, we explore the role collision avoidance between virtual agents and the VR user plays on overall comfort and perceptual experience in an immersive virtual environment. Several users participated in an experiment were they were asked to walk through a dense stream of virtual agents who may or may not be using collision avoidance techniques to avoid them. When collision avoidance was used participants took more direct paths, with less jittering or backtracking, and found the resulting simulated motion to be less intimidating, more realistic, and more comfortable.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments, VHCIE 2017
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538627587
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VHCIE.2017.7935624
State	Published - May 30 2017
Event	2nd IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments, VHCIE 2017 - Los Angeles, United States Duration: Mar 19 2017 → …

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Country/Territory	United States
City	Los Angeles
Period	3/19/17 → …

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Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation (CHS: Small: 1526693 Transforming the Architectural Design Review Process through Collaborative Embodiment in HMD-Based Immersive Virtual Environments). We are grateful to our participants for their time and efforts.

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Atmospheric measurements
Lead
Particle measurements
Resists

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Sohre, N., MacKin, C., Interrante, V., & Guy, S. J. (2017). Evaluating collision avoidance effects on discomfort in virtual environments. In 2017 IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments, VHCIE 2017 Article 7935624 (2017 IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments, VHCIE 2017). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/VHCIE.2017.7935624

Evaluating collision avoidance effects on discomfort in virtual environments. / Sohre, Nick; MacKin, Charlie; Interrante, Victoria et al.
2017 IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments, VHCIE 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. 7935624 (2017 IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments, VHCIE 2017).

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Sohre, N, MacKin, C, Interrante, V & Guy, SJ 2017, Evaluating collision avoidance effects on discomfort in virtual environments. in 2017 IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments, VHCIE 2017., 7935624, 2017 IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments, VHCIE 2017, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2nd IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments, VHCIE 2017, Los Angeles, United States, 3/19/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/VHCIE.2017.7935624

Sohre N, MacKin C, Interrante V , Guy SJ. Evaluating collision avoidance effects on discomfort in virtual environments. In 2017 IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments, VHCIE 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2017. 7935624. (2017 IEEE Virtual Humans and Crowds for Immersive Environments, VHCIE 2017). doi: 10.1109/VHCIE.2017.7935624

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