Towards an Equitable Social VR
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Engineering
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Yin L
(2023)
Design for Sustainable Inclusion - CWUAAT 2023
Song Z
(2023)
HotGestures: Complementing Command Selection and Use with Delimiter-Free Gesture-Based Shortcuts in Virtual Reality.
in IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Li X
(2023)
Swarm Manipulation in Virtual Reality
Dudley J
(2023)
Inclusive Immersion: a review of efforts to improve accessibility in virtual reality, augmented reality and the metaverse
in Virtual Reality
Liao Y
(2024)
Practical approaches to group-level multi-objective Bayesian optimization in interaction technique design
in Collective Intelligence
Li X
(2024)
Swarm manipulation: An efficient and accurate technique for multi-object manipulation in virtual reality
in Computers & Graphics
Mo G
(2024)
Cooperative Multi-Objective Bayesian Design Optimization
in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
| Description | A large output is a highly cited review article called 'Inclusive Immersion' which sets up a research agenda, identifies gaps in the literature, and synthesises guidelines for designing inclusive virtual and augmented reality content and interfaces. Another output is an understanding of stakeholder perspectives in accessibility through an interview study with designers. In terms of technical progress, we have created and explored novel immersive interfaces such as 'swarm manipulation' which allows users to control virtual swarm particles to make selections and 'Hot Gestures' which uses state of the art machine learning to allow users to carry out functions in virtual reality by simply carrying them out, bypassing a function selection stage. |
| Exploitation Route | The Inclusive Immersion review sets up a clear research agenda for accesssible interfaces and content in virtual and augmented reality. Where relevant, code is shared and available to other researchers and practioners in industry. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology |
| Description | The 'Hot Gestures' paper resulted in a magzine article in IEEE Spectrum (a trade magazine for electrical and electronics engineers). https://spectrum.ieee.org/virtual-reality-tool-making |
| First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Title | Research data supporting "HotGestures: Complementing Command Selection and Use with Delimiter-Free Gesture-Based Shortcuts in Virtual Reality" |
| Description | 1. The HotGestureData.zip contains a dataset used for training the recognizer in the HotGestures paper. The dataset consists of hand skeleton data of 10 gesture classes and the Null gesture class, collected from 8 participants. Each csv file is a gesture clip that records the trajectory of the 1) ABSOLUTE 3D position (x, y, z) and quaternion (x, y, z, w) of the wrist, and 2) positions and rotations of other joints RELATIVE to the wrist. Please read the markdown (.md) file for more details. 2. The HotGestureSource.zip contains the python source code of the recogniser. One can train this recognizer using the dataset above to implement the HotGestures. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None so far. |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/354385 |