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We investigate the role of prediction in biological movement perception by comparing different representations of human movement in a virtual reality (VR) and online experiment. Predicting movement enables quick and appropriate action by both humans and ...

The perception of shapes and images are important areas that have been explored in previous research. While the problem of the interestingness of images has been explored, there is no previous work in the interestingness of 3D shapes to the best of our ...

In this paper we present evidence that human perception of grasp might be most dependent on the information retrieved during the inward latch rather than the release of objects. This research is motivated by a number of haptic simulations and devices ...

Ultrasonic mid-air haptic feedback enables the tactile exploration of virtual objects in digital environments. However, an object’s shape and texture is perceived multimodally, commencing before tactile contact is made. Visual cues, such as the spatial ...

Deep neural networks for video-based eye tracking have demonstrated resilience to noisy environments, stray reflections, and low resolution. However, to train these networks, a large number of manually annotated images are required. To alleviate the ...

In theory, visual saliency in a graph should be used to draw attention to its most important component(s). Thus salience is commonly viewed both as a basis for predicting where graph readers are likely to look, and as a core design technique for ...

Many HMD applications are improved when people perceive and act similarly in the virtual world as they would in an equivalent real environment. However, multiple studies show people underestimate egocentric distances in HMDs while being reasonably ...

Commodity-level virtual reality equipment is now available to all ages. To better understand how cognitive development affects people’s spatial memory in virtual reality, we assess how adults (20-29 years old) and teenagers (14-17 years old) represent ...

Mixed reality is increasingly being used for training, especially for tasks that are difficult for humans to perform such as far distance perception. Although there has been much prior work on the perception of distance in mixed reality, the majority of ...

A virtual reality (VR) system’s interface determines its corresponding interaction fidelity. While there exist several naturally-mapped interfaces, these have not been directly compared – in terms of presence, engagement, perceived performance, and real ...

In sound localization experiments, currently used metrics for front-back confusion (FBC) analysis weight the occurring FBCs equally, regardless of their deviation from the cone of confusion. To overcome this limitation, we introduce the FBC Score. A ...

We detail the results of two experiments that empirically evaluate the efficiency of spatial selection performance of popular pointing and controller based direct 3D interaction within the participants’ maximum arms reach or personal space in an ...

With the rise of immersive virtual reality and telepresence, it is important to understand the factors that contribute to creating an optimal user experience. In particular, there are divergent recommendations for setting camera heights in virtual ...

Perceptual studies on pedestrians and bicyclists have shown that highlighting the most informative features of the road user increases visibility in real-life traffic scenarios. As technological limitations on automotive lamp configurations are ...

While digital humans are key aspects of the rapidly evolving areas of virtual reality, gaming, and online communications, many applications would benefit from using digital personalized (stylized) representations of users, as they were shown to highly ...

Redirected walking (RDW) allows users to explore a virtual environment larger than the physical tracking space by real walking. When RDW is applied within certain thresholds, users do not notice it and remain immersed in the virtual environment. There ...

The demand for cartoon animation content is on the rise, driven largely by social media, video conferencing and virtual reality. New content creation tools and the availability of open-source game engines allow characters to be animated by even novice ...

Synthesizing motions that look realistic and diverse is a challenging task in animation. Therefore, a few generic walking motions are typically used when creating crowds of walking virtual characters, leading to a lack of variations as motions are not ...