RedirectedStepper: Exploring Walking-In-Place Locomotion in VR Using a Mini Stepper for Ascents

要旨

Walking on inclined surfaces is common in some Virtual Reality (VR) scenarios, for instance, when moving between floors of a building, climbing a tower, or ascending a virtual mountain. Existing approaches enabling realistic walking experiences in such settings typically require the user to use bulky walking-in-place hardware or to walk in a physical area. Addressing this challenge, we present RedirectedStepper, a locomotion technique leveraging a novel device based on a mini exercise stepper to provide realistic VR staircase walking experiences by alternating the tilt of the two stepper pedals. RedirectedStepper employs a new exponential mapping function to visually morph the user's real foot motion to a corresponding curved path in the virtual environment (VE). Combining this stepper and the visual mapping function provides an in-place locomotion technique allowing users to virtually ascend an infinite staircase or slope while walking-in-place (WIP). We conducted three within-subject user studies (n=36) comparing RedirectedStepper with a WIP locomotion technique using the Kinect. Our studies indicate that RedirectedStepper improves the users' sense of realism in walking on staircases in VR. Based on a set of design implications derived from the user studies, we developed SnowRun, a VR exergame application, demonstrating the use of the RedirectedStepper concept.

著者
Quang-Tri Le
University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Nham Huynh-Duc
University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Tanh Quang. Tran
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Morten Fjeld
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Markus Zank
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Rotkreuz, Switzerland
Minh-Triet Tran
University of Science, VNUHCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Khanh-Duy Le
University of Science, VNUHCM, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713313

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713313

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Interactions for Walking and Driving

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