Improving spatial orientation in immersive environments

Joseph Kotlarek; I. Chen Lin; Kwan-Liu Ma

doi:10.1145/3267782.3267792

Improving spatial orientation in immersive environments

Joseph Kotlarek, I. Chen Lin, Kwan-Liu Ma

Computer Science

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a comparative evaluation of three different approaches to improving users' spatial awareness in virtual reality environments, and consequently their user experience and productivity. Using a scientific visualization task, we test the performance of 21 participants to navigate around a virtual immersive environment. Our results suggest that using landmarks, a 3D minimap, and waypoint navigation all contribute to improved spatial orientation, while the macroscopic view of the environment provided by the 3D minimap has the greatest positive impact on spatial orientation. Users also prefer the 3D minimap for usability and immersion by a wide margin over the other techniques.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SUI 2018 - Proceedings of the Symposium on Spatial User Interaction
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	79-88
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450357081
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3267782.3267792
Publication status	Published - Oct 13 2018
Event	6th ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, SUI 2018 - Berlin, Germany Duration: Oct 13 2018 → Oct 14 2018

Other

Other	6th ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, SUI 2018
Country	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	10/13/18 → 10/14/18

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Keywords

Immersive virtual environments
Locomotion
Presence
Scientific visualization
Spatial orientation
Virtual reality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction

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Kotlarek, J., Lin, I. C., & Ma, K-L. (2018). Improving spatial orientation in immersive environments. In SUI 2018 - Proceedings of the Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (pp. 79-88). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267782.3267792

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