TY - GEN
T1 - A thermally enhanced weather checking system in VR
AU - Chen, Zikun
AU - Peiris, Roshan Lalintha
AU - Minamizawa, Kouta
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/10/20
Y1 - 2017/10/20
N2 - In this project, by combining thermal feedback with Virtual Reality (VR) and utilizing thermal stimuli to present temperature data of weather, we attempted to provide a multi-sensory experience for enhancing users' perception of environment in virtual space. By integrating thermal modules with the current VR head mounted display to provide thermal feedback directly on the face, and by setting thermal stimulus to provide similar feeling towards real air temperature, we developed an application in which users are able to "feel" the weather in VR environment. An user experiment was also conducted to evaluate our design, according to which we verified that thermal feedback can improve users' experience in perceiving environment, and this research also provided a new approach for setting thermal feedback for presenting environmental information in virtual space.
AB - In this project, by combining thermal feedback with Virtual Reality (VR) and utilizing thermal stimuli to present temperature data of weather, we attempted to provide a multi-sensory experience for enhancing users' perception of environment in virtual space. By integrating thermal modules with the current VR head mounted display to provide thermal feedback directly on the face, and by setting thermal stimulus to provide similar feeling towards real air temperature, we developed an application in which users are able to "feel" the weather in VR environment. An user experiment was also conducted to evaluate our design, according to which we verified that thermal feedback can improve users' experience in perceiving environment, and this research also provided a new approach for setting thermal feedback for presenting environmental information in virtual space.
KW - Environmental information
KW - Haptic
KW - Thermal
KW - VR
KW - Virtual reality
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U2 - 10.1145/3131785.3131825
DO - 10.1145/3131785.3131825
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85041395505
T3 - UIST 2017 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
SP - 123
EP - 125
BT - UIST 2017 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2017
Y2 - 22 October 2017 through 25 October 2017
ER -