abstract

Effects of Virtual Gait Visualization in Walk-in-Place on Body Ownership and Presence

Authors:

Juyoung Lee,

Myungho Lee,

Gerard Jounghyun Kim,

Jae-In HwangAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382867

Published: 25 April 2020 Publication History

Get Access

Abstract

We investigate the effects of different ways of visualizing the virtual gait of the avatar in the context of Walk-in-Place (WIP) based navigation in a virtual environment (VE). In our study, participants navigated through a VE using the WIP method while inhabiting an avatar. We varied the leg motions of the avatar while performing the WIP gesture: (1) Fixed Body the legs stood still; (2) Prerecorded Animation the legs moved in a fixed predetermined pace (plausible but not in accordance to that of the user in general); (3) Synchronized Motion the legs moved according (synchronized) to the those of the users. Our results indicate that the sense of presence improved significantly by visualizing the leg movement, synchronized or not. This in turn further enhanced the sense of body ownership especially when the leg motion was synchronized to that of the user (Synchronized Motion). However, a significant level of simulation sickness was reported when the virtual leg motion did not match the user's (Fixed Body and Prerecorded Animation). We discuss the implications for representing the avatar locomotion in immersive virtual environments.

Supplementary Material

MP4 File (lbw130pv.mp4)

Preview video

Download
8.41 MB

References

[1]

Jakki O. Bailey, Jeremy N. Bailenson, and Daniel Casasanto. 2016. When does virtual embodiment change our minds? Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 25, 3 (2016), 222--233.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[2]

Laroussi Bouguila, Florian Evequoz, Michele Courant, and Beat Hirsbrunner. 2004. Walking-pad: A step-in-place locomotion interface for virtual environments. In Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Multimodal interfaces (ICMI). ACM, 77--81.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[3]

Beverly K. Jaeger and Ronald R. Mourant. 2001. Comparison of simulator sickness using static and dynamic walking simulators. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Vol. 45. SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA, 1896--1900.

Google Scholar

[4]

Robert S. Kennedy, Norman E. Lane, Kevin S. Berbaum, and Michael G. Lilienthal. 1993. Simulator sickness questionnaire: An enhanced method for quantifying simulator sickness. The international journal of aviation psychology 3, 3 (1993), 203--220.

Google Scholar

[5]

Konstantina Kilteni, Antonella Maselli, Konrad P. Kording, and Mel Slater. 2015. Over my fake body: body ownership illusions for studying the multisensory basis of own-body perception. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9 (2015), 141.

Crossref

Google Scholar

[6]

Elena Kokkinara and Mel Slater. 2014. Measuring the effects through time of the influence of visuomotor and visuotactile synchronous stimulation on a virtual body ownership illusion. Perception 43, 1 (2014), 43--58.

Crossref

Google Scholar

[7]

Juyoung Lee, Sang C. Ahn, and Jae-In Hwang. 2018. A walking-in-place method for virtual reality using position and orientation tracking. Sensors 18, 9 (2018), 2832.

Crossref

Google Scholar

[8]

Juyoung Lee, Andreas Pastor, Jae-In Hwang, and Gerard J. Kim. 2019. Predicting the Torso Direction from HMD Movements for Walk-in-Place Navigation through Deep Learning. In 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. ACM, 84.

Google Scholar

[9]

Niels C. Nilsson, Stefania Serafin, and Rolf Nordahl. 2013. Unintended positional drift and its potential solutions. In 2013 IEEE Virtual Reality. IEEE, 121--122.

Google Scholar

[10]

Niels C. Nilsson, Stefania Serafin, Frank Steinicke, and Rolf Nordahl. 2018. Natural walking in virtual reality: A review. Computers in Entertainment (CIE) 16, 2 (2018), 8.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[11]

Mel Slater, Daniel Pérez-Marcos, Henrik Ehrsson, and Maria V. Sanchez-Vives. 2009. Inducing illusory ownership of a virtual body. Frontiers in neuroscience 3 (2009), 29.

Google Scholar

[12]

James N. Templeman, Patricia S. Denbrook, and Linda E. Sibert. 1999. Virtual locomotion: Walking in place through virtual environments. Presence 8, 6 (1999), 598--617.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[13]

Sam Tregillus and Eelke Folmer. 2016. Vr-step: Walking-in-place using inertial sensing for hands free navigation in mobile vr environments. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 1250--1255.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[14]

Jeremy D. Wendt, Mary C. Whitton, and Frederick P. Brooks. 2010. Gud wip: Gait-understanding-driven walking-in-place. In 2010 IEEE Virtual Reality. IEEE, 51--58.

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Gao BZheng HZhao JTu HKim HDuh H(2024)Evaluating Plausible Preference of Body-Centric Locomotion using Subjective Matching in Virtual Reality2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)10.1109/VR58804.2024.00124(1054-1064)Online publication date: 16-Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/VR58804.2024.00124
Padilla AToepfer MPeer APonto KPickett KMason A(2023)Effects of Habituation on Spatiotemporal Gait Measures in Younger AdultsPRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality10.1162/pres_a_0040532(129-146)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2023
https://doi.org/10.1162/pres_a_00405
Li ZJiang YZhu YChen RWang RWang YYan YShi Y(2022)Modeling the Noticeability of User-Avatar Movement Inconsistency for Sense of Body Ownership InterventionProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/35345906:2(1-26)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3534590
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Effects of Virtual Gait Visualization in Walk-in-Place on Body Ownership and Presence
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Virtual reality

Recommendations

Effects of Synchronized Leg Motion in Walk-in-Place Utilizing Deep Neural Networks for Enhanced Body Ownership and Sense of Presence in VR
VRST '20: Proceedings of the 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

We investigate the effects of different ways of visualizing the virtual gait of the avatar in the context of Walk-in-Place (WIP) based navigation in a virtual environment (VE). In Study 1, participants navigated through a VE using the WIP method while ...
The impact of avatar-owner visual similarity on body ownership in immersive virtual reality
VRST '17: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

In this paper we report on an investigation of the effects of a self-avatar's visual similarity to a user's actual appearance, on their perceptions of the avatar in an immersive virtual reality (IVR) experience. We conducted a user study to examine the ...
Effects of steering locomotion and teleporting on cybersickness and presence in HMD-based virtual reality
Abstract
While head-mounted display-based virtual reality (VR) can produce compelling feelings of presence (or “being there”) in its users, it also often induces motion sickness. This study compared the presence, cybersickness and perceptions of self-...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2020

4474 pages

ISBN:9781450368193

DOI:10.1145/3334480

General Chairs:
Regina Bernhaupt
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
,
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller
Monash University, Australia
,
David Verweij
Newcastle University, UK
,
Josh Andres
RMIT, Australia
,
Program Chairs:
Joanna McGrenere
University of British Columbia, Canada
,
Andy Cockburn
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
,
Ignacio Avellino
University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
,
Alix Goguey
Grenoble Alpes University, France
,
Pernille Bjørn
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
,
Shengdong (Shen) Zhao
National University of Singapore, Singapore
,
Briane Paul Samson
Future University Hakodate, Japan & De La Salle University, Philippines
,
Rafal Kocielnik
University of Washington, USA

Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 25 April 2020

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Abstract

Conference

CHI '20

Sponsor:

SIGCHI

CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 25 - 30, 2020

HI, Honolulu, USA

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 6,164 of 23,696 submissions, 26%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

5
Total Citations
View Citations
828
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)183
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)4

Reflects downloads up to 26 Sep 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Gao BZheng HZhao JTu HKim HDuh H(2024)Evaluating Plausible Preference of Body-Centric Locomotion using Subjective Matching in Virtual Reality2024 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)10.1109/VR58804.2024.00124(1054-1064)Online publication date: 16-Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/VR58804.2024.00124
Padilla AToepfer MPeer APonto KPickett KMason A(2023)Effects of Habituation on Spatiotemporal Gait Measures in Younger AdultsPRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality10.1162/pres_a_0040532(129-146)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2023
https://doi.org/10.1162/pres_a_00405
Li ZJiang YZhu YChen RWang RWang YYan YShi Y(2022)Modeling the Noticeability of User-Avatar Movement Inconsistency for Sense of Body Ownership InterventionProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/35345906:2(1-26)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3534590
Wang XYe HSandor CZhang WFu H(2022)Predict-and-Drive: Avatar Motion Adaption in Room-Scale Augmented Reality Telepresence with Heterogeneous SpacesIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics10.1109/TVCG.2022.320310928:11(3705-3714)Online publication date: Nov-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2022.3203109
Dewez DHoyet LLecuyer AArgelaguet F(2020)Studying the Inter-Relation Between Locomotion Techniques and Embodiment in Virtual Reality2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)10.1109/ISMAR50242.2020.00070(452-461)Online publication date: Nov-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR50242.2020.00070

View Options

Get Access

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

HTML Format

View this article in HTML Format.

HTML Format

Abstract

Supplementary Material

References

Cited By

Index Terms

Recommendations

Effects of Synchronized Leg Motion in Walk-in-Place Utilizing Deep Neural Networks for Enhanced Body Ownership and Sense of Presence in VR

The impact of avatar-owner visual similarity on body ownership in immersive virtual reality

Effects of steering locomotion and teleporting on cybersickness and presence in HMD-based virtual reality

Comments

Information

Published In

Sponsors

Publisher

Publication History

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Conference

Acceptance Rates

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Get Access

Login options

Full Access

View options

PDF

eReader

HTML Format

Figures

Other

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media

Affiliations