Velocity-dependent curvature gain and avatar use for Redirected Walking
C Neth, Jan L. Souman, David Joshua Engel, Bülthoff Kloos U, Betty J. Mohler, Kuhlen, Sabine Coquillart, Victoria Interrante · Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics · 2010
We investigated in a study whether humans sensitivity to curved walking is affected by their walking velocity. Amongst other techniques, redirecting users of an immersive virtual environment on a curved path is part of the so-called Redirected Walking. We conducted an experiment in which 12 participants walked specific curvatures at given speeds in a VR. We found that people are significantly less sensitive to walking on a curve when walking slower. Moreover, we assume the possibility of using avatars to support redirection algorithms as it was shown by Llobera et al. ([LSRS10]) that proxemics holds true for avatars in virtual environments, too. In this work, we depict three possible applications of how avatars could be used to achieve a better redirection.