Leveraging change blindness for redirection in virtual environments

We present change blindness redirection, a novel technique for allowing the user to walk through an immersive virtual environment that is considerably larger than the available physical workspace. In contrast to previous redirection techniques, this approach, based on a dynamic environment model, do...

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Published in:2011 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference pp. 159 - 166
Main Authors: Suma, E A, Clark, S, Krum, D, Finkelstein, S, Bolas, M, Warte, Z
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.03.2011
Subjects:
Blindness
change blindness
Games
Legged locomotion
Monitoring
redirection
Three dimensional displays
Virtual environment
virtual environments
Visualization
ISBN:9781457700392, 1457700395
ISSN:1087-8270
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Summary:We present change blindness redirection, a novel technique for allowing the user to walk through an immersive virtual environment that is considerably larger than the available physical workspace. In contrast to previous redirection techniques, this approach, based on a dynamic environment model, does not introduce any visual-vestibular conflicts from manipulating the mapping between physical and virtual motions, nor does it require breaking presence to stop and explicitly reorient the user. We conducted two user studies to evaluate the effectiveness of the change blindness illusion when exploring a virtual environment that was an order of magnitude larger than the physical walking space. Despite the dynamically changing environment, participants were able to draw coherent sketch maps of the environment structure, and pointing task results indicated that they were able to maintain their spatial orientation within the virtual world. Only one out of 77 participants across both both studies definitively noticed that a scene change had occurred, suggesting that change blindness redirection provides a remarkably compelling illusion. Secondary findings revealed that a wide field-of-view increases pointing accuracy and that experienced gamers reported greater sense of presence than those with little or no experience with 3D video games.
ISBN:9781457700392
1457700395
ISSN:1087-8270
DOI:10.1109/VR.2011.5759455