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Comparing Pedestrian Navigation Methods in Virtual Reality and Real Life

Authors:

Gian-Luca Savino,

Niklas Emanuel,

Steven Kowalzik,

Marvin C. Lange,

Matthis Laudan,

Dayana Markhabayeva,

Martin Schmeißer,

Nicolai Schütz,

Carolin Stellmacher,

Thorsten Kluss,

Jaime Maldonado,

Johannes SchöningAuthors Info & Claims

ICMI '19: 2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

Pages 16 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/3340555.3353741

Published: 14 October 2019 Publication History

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Mobile navigation apps are among the most used mobile applications and are often used as a baseline to evaluate new mobile navigation technologies in field studies. As field studies often introduce external factors that are hard to control for, we investigate how pedestrian navigation methods can be evaluated in virtual reality (VR). We present a study comparing navigation methods in real life (RL) and VR to evaluate if VR environments are a viable alternative to RL environments when it comes to testing these. In a series of studies, participants navigated a real and a virtual environment using a paper map and a navigation app on a smartphone. We measured the differences in navigation performance, task load and spatial knowledge acquisition between RL and VR. From these we formulate guidelines for the improvement of pedestrian navigation systems in VR like improved legibility for small screen devices. We furthermore discuss appropriate low-cost and low-space VR-locomotion techniques and discuss more controllable locomotion techniques.

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ICMI '19: 2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

October 2019

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ISBN:9781450368605

DOI:10.1145/3340555

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Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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Matthew Turk
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA
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Susan R. Fussell
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