Omar Shaikh

Movement Visualizer for Networked Virtual Reality Platforms

IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR), 2018

Abstract

We describe the design, deployment and testing of a module to track and graphically represent user movement in a collaborative virtual environment. This module allows for the comparison of ground-truth user/observer ratings of the affective qualities of an interaction with automatically generated representations of the participants’ movements in real time. In this example, we generate three charts visible both to participants and external researchers. Two display the sum of the tracked movements of each participant, and a third displays a “synchrony visualizer”, or a correlation coefficient based on the relationship between the two participants’ movements. Users and observers thus see a visual representation of “nonverbal synchrony” as it evolves over the course of the interaction. We discuss this module in the context of other applications beyond synchrony.

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@inproceedings{shaikh2018movement,
  title={Movement Visualizer for Networked Virtual Reality Platforms},
  author={Shaikh, Omar and Sun, Yilu and Won, Andrea Stevenson},
  booktitle={2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)},
  pages={681--682},
  year={2018},
  organization={IEEE}
}