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The Effect of Teleporting Versus Room-Scale Walking for Interacting with Immersive Visualizations

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The use of different locomotion techniques such as walking or teleportation affects the way people explore and build an understanding of complex data in immersive visualizations. We report results from a quantitative user study (14 participants) comparing the effect of room-scale real walking versus teleportation on information search and task performance in a word-cloud immersive visualization. Participants performed an ordering task and we measured performance, post-task recall, workload and flow. Results suggest that room-scale real walking favors interaction and short-term recall but could imply higher workload.

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This work is supported by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) under grant Sense2MakeSense (PID2019-109388GB-I00) and CrossColab (PGC2018-101884-B-I00).

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    Alejandro Rey, Andrea Bellucci, Paloma Díaz & Ignacio Aedo

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Rey, A., Bellucci, A., Díaz, P., Aedo, I. (2023). The Effect of Teleporting Versus Room-Scale Walking for Interacting with Immersive Visualizations. In: Abdelnour Nocera, J., Kristín Lárusdóttir, M., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Winckler, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14143. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42283-6_6

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