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Advanced wearable digital assistants can significantly enhance task performance, reduce user burden, and provide personalized guidance to improve users’ abilities. However, developing these assistants presents several challenges. To address this, we ...

Most people with a visual impairment retain some residual vision, yet accessibility strategies and research for visual art focus on non-visual aids and strategies. Little is known about how image enhancements may benefit people with low vision in art ...

This paper proposes a summarized analyses for volumetric video streaming use cases and its applicability for immersive extended reality applications. It also closely evaluates and illustrates the usability of standardized technologies for one of the use ...

This paper explores the integration of mixed-reality (MR) head-mounted-display (HMD) solutions within the live broadcasting industry. Extended reality (XR) technologies have been incorporated into virtual production workflows, but HMDs have seen limited ...

We introduce PANDALens, a Proactive AI Narrative Documentation Assistant built on an Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Display that transforms the in-context writing tool into an intelligent companion during daily activities. PANDALens observes ...

While effective for recording and sharing experiences, traditional in-context writing tools are relatively passive and unintelligent, serving more like instruments rather than companions. This reduces primary task (e.g., travel) enjoyment and hinders ...

Empathy has become a central focus in design and is clearly evident in various frameworks, such as universal design, inclusive design, and human-centered design. However, among numerous stakeholders, designers, and engineers are the ones who ...

With the introduction of powerful VR in the form of the Vision Pro next year, 40 years after the Macintosh, we will see the introduction of potentially ground-breaking means through which we can interact with our information and each other, to truly ...

Virtual Reality (VR) applications offer an immersive user experience at the expense of privacy leakage caused by inevitably streaming various new types of user data. While some privacy-preserving approaches have been proposed for protecting one type of ...

Interactions with digital devices during social settings can reduce social engagement and interrupt conversations. To overcome these drawbacks, we designed ParaGlassMenu, a semi-transparent circular menu that can be displayed around a conversation ...

Virtual Reality (VR) applications commonly use the illusion of self-motion (vection) to simulate experiences such as running, driving, or flying. However, this can lead to cybersickness, which diminishes the experience of users, and can even lead to ...

The human visual system evolved in environments with statistical regularities. Binocular vision is adapted to these such that depth perception and eye movements are more precise, faster, and performed comfortably in environments consistent with the ...

Many studies have found people can accurately judge distances in the real world while they underestimate distances in virtual reality (VR). This discrepancy negatively impacts some VR applications. Direct blind walking is a popular method of measuring ...

Real-world interruptions will challenge virtual reality (VR) users in future everyday transport. For example, while passengers are immersed at a virtual beach, an incoming phone call might interrupt their presence and relaxation. We investigated how to ...

Given the inherent visual affordances of Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) used for Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR), they have been actively used over many years as assistive and therapeutic devices for the people who are visually impaired. In this ...

Optical see-through Head-Mounted Displays (OST HMDs, OHMDs) are known to facilitate situational awareness while accessing secondary information. However, information displayed on OHMDs can cause attention shifts, which distract users from natural social ...

Virtual Reality (VR) can be used to create immersive infotainment experiences for car passengers. However, not much is known about how to best incorporate the essentials of their surroundings for balancing real-world awareness and immersion. To address ...

This paper presents iThinkSmart, an immersive virtual reality-based application to facilitate the learning of computational thinking (CT) concepts. The tool was developed to supplement the traditional teaching and learning of CT by integrating three ...

Text input is essential in a variety of uses in virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR). We present HMK: an effective text input method that mounts split keyboards on the left and right side of the head mounted display (HMD). Users who can touch-type ...

Head-mounted display (HMD) based cognitive training enables a number of unique visual features, including 3D depth and immersive visuals. We examine the impact of these features by measuring task performance and EEG power with a cognitive task that has ...