Perception-Action in VR
We look at various forms of perception-action coordination in virtual environments.
Interactions with Virtual Humans
This research focuses on how people behave when talking to or completing a task with a virtual human.
Long-term Exposure to VR
This work explores how user interactions in VR change as they gain experience over time.
Publication Highlight
Using Audio Reverberation to Compensate Distance Compression in Virtual Reality
Yi-Hsuan Huang, Roshan Venkatakrishnan, Rohith Venkatakrishnan, Sabarish V. Babu, Wen-Chieh Lin (2021)
Virtual Reality (VR) technologies are increasingly being applied to various contexts like those gaming, therapy, training, and education. Several of these applications require high degrees of accuracy in spatial and depth perception. Contemporary VR experiences continue to be confronted by the issue of distance compression wherein people systematically underestimate distances in the virtual world, leading to impoverished experiences. Consequently, a number of studies have focused on extensively understanding and exploring factors that influence this phenomenon to address the challenges it poses. Inspired by previous work that has sought to compensate distance compression effects in VR, we examined the potential of manipulating an auditory stimulus' reverberation time (RT) to alter how users perceive depth. To this end, we conducted a two action forced choice study in which participants repeatedly made relative depth judgements between a pair of scenes featuring a virtual character placed at different distances with varying RTs. Results revealed that RT influences how users perceive depth with this influence being more pronounced in the near field...
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Our work is funded through grants provided by the National Science Foundation and through the support of Clemson University.
Our Lab
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McAdams Hall
Our building
Room 111C
Our lab
Wide Area Tracking Space
For projects that require extra room
Small Area Tracking Space
Separated spaces for individual projects
VR Headset and Tracker
Helmet with tracker is used for tracking head-motion without the HMD
Lab Members
Members of our lab on picture day 2022
Lab Lunch Spring 2022
Spring lab lunch 2022
Lab Lunch December 2022
December lab lunch 2022
Projects
These are some of our ongoing projects.
Effects of Long-term Exposure to VR on Perception-Action Coordination
Kristopher Kohm - Andrew RobbWe studied how perception-action coordination changed as VR users gain experience in virtual environments over time. This work highlights the need for carrying out VR studies over time and the influence that longitudinal calibration can have on spatial perception in long-term VR experiences.
Effect of Experience on Locomotion and Navigation in Virtual Reality
Moloud Nasiri - Andrew RobbThis work considers the experience of users in locomotion and navigating desktop VEs when designing navigation aids and studying their effectiveness. Navigation aids that are appropriate for experienced users may actually not provide a suitable level of support for inexperienced users, and solutions that may improve the navigation performance of inexperienced users may not benefit experienced users beyond a certain degree. Our results will benefit the design of VR applications based on the users' capabilities and needs.
Prisma Health iHeartU mHealth Phone Application
Alex Schlesener - Sabarish V. BabuThe mHealth phone application includes a digital human or embodied conversational agent (ECA) interface for reporting health status. It will be used for the remote monitoring of Prisma Health patients who suffer from pulmonary distress or heart failure. Additionally, we will measure the users' subjective impressions towards the embodied conversational agent (ECA) and the system usability.
Investigating a Combination of Input Modalities, Canvas Geometries, and Inking Triggers on On-Air Handwriting in VR
Roshan Venkatakrishnan, Rohith Venkatakrishnan - Sabarish V. BabuThis work attempts at laying a foundation for future investigations that seek to understand and further improve the on-air writing experience in immersive virtual environments. We study the effects of canvas geometry, inking triggers and input modalities on on-air writing performance, outlining guidelines and good practices to abide by when designing such interfaces.
Investigating the Effects of Secondary Tasks on Cybersickness in Virtual Reality
Rohith Venkatakrishnan, Roshan Venkatakrishnan - Sabarish V. BabuCybersickness, a malady like motion sickness strongly manifests in virtual experiences that involve locomotion. This work attempts to study how cybersickness is affected when secondary tasks have to additionally be performed in VR. We further evaluate whether secondary tasks affect other aspects of the VR experience.
Investigating the Effects of End Effector Representations on Interactions in VR
Roshan Venkatakrishnan, Rohith Venkatakrishnan - Sabarish V. BabuEnd effectors represent the tools with which users perform actions and interact with the virtual world. This work seeks to investigate how end effector representations affect the efficacy of performance in interaction tasks in immersive virtual environments.
Effects of Self-Avatars on Near-Field Size Perception in XR
Chandni Murmu, Roshan Venkatakrishnan, and Rohith Venkatakrishnan - Sabarish V. BabuFocus of this project is to study effects of presence of users' end effectors and sensory modalities on the perception of tangibles in virtual reality (VR). Through this study we are trying to determine if the perception of size of the tracked tangibles are improved by providing the user's hand avatar in the VR environment.
Travel and Navigation in VR through the lens of Fitts' Law
Chandni Murmu - Sabarish V. BabuTradeoff between efficiency and accuracy while performing cornering tasks, in a VR environment of randomly arranged maze, is being studied.
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