Formative Design of VR Guidance Cues

Closed Human-Computer Interaction Games Engineering eXtended Artificial Intelligence Bachelor Master Project Thesis Games Research Lab

Background

Without proper guidance mechanism, a VR experience can be overwhelming for a new user. Also for an instructor, it will be difficult to tell the user what to do once they wear the HMD. The assistance can be in the form of cues, either visual, auditory, or text based, but without causing any breaks in reality. The cue system should also understand the user interaction pattern to provide help at the right time.

Tasks

1. Survey existing methods
2. Define cue guidelines that can be used in the contect of VIA-VR
3. Identify what assistance is best suited with minimum/no distraction
4. Design and implement according, parameterizable cues
5. Design and implement a UI to flexibly configure and trigger these cues during runtime
6. Demonstrate the work by means of an appropriate VR use-case

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References

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2. Hu, Xinyu, et al. “The Effects of Delayed Interaction Cues in Virtual Reality Training.” 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). IEEE, 2020. - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9090424
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