A necessary part of developing effective and realistic Virtual Reality (VR) simulations is emulating perceptual sensations that occur to humans in corresponding natural environments. VR users are often seated and unable to freely move through the ...

A previous study, Young et al. [2014], explored comparisons between cost-differentiated head-mounted displays for the evaluation of various perception and action tasks. One of the comparisons in that work was egocentric distance estimation comparison ...

The results of multiple studies conducted in the real world have demonstrated that human observers are usually very accurate in judging egocentric distance (the distance from the observer to a target) up to about 25 meters if the target is located on a ...

When two eyes view different objects or scenes at the same time, stable binocular single vision gives way to alternations in perception. Called binocular rivalry, this beguiling phenomenon discloses the existence of inhibitory interactions between ...

Communicating different emotions to individuals who are blind through tactile feedback is an active area of research. But most work is static in nature as different facial expressions of emotions are conveyed through a fixed set of facial features which ...

A perceptually uniform gloss space was defined in Pellacini et al. [2000] as a reparameterization of the Ward BRDF model. Two dimensions, distinctness-of-image gloss and contrast gloss, were found to be enough to describe gloss perception, and the ...

In many medical Augmented Reality (AR) applications, doctors want the ability to place a physical object, such as a needle or other medical device, at the depth indicated by a virtual object. Often, this object will be located behind an occluding ...

A common workflow for modern comic artists is to create an inked line drawing using traditional tools. Then the drawing is scanned as black and white line art and coloured digitally using an application such as Photoshop [Abel and Madden 2012]. The ...

Redirected Walking is technique that leverages human perception characteristics to allow locomotion in virtual environments larger than the tracking area. Among the many redirection techniques, some strictly depend on the user's current position and ...

We believe that every physical entity has a set of attributes that defines the degree of how creatively it can be used. For example, the affordances, abstractness and modular nature of Lego™ blocks allows them to take on different forms of expression ...

Haptic expression of emotions has received less attention than other modalities. Bonnet et al. [2011] combine visio-haptic modalities to improve the recognition and discrimination of some emotions. However, few works investigated how these modalities ...

Modern media recommendation systems work based on the content of videos previously seen. While this may work for the habitual viewer, it is not always appropriate for many users whose tastes change based on their moods. A lot can be gathered from a ...

Distance perception is a crucial component for many virtual reality applications, and numerous studies have shown that egocentric distances are judged to be compressed in head-mounted display (HMD) systems. Geometric minification, a technique where the ...

Research in visuo-motor coupling has shown that the matching of visual and proprioceptive information is important for calibrating movement. Many state-of-the art virtual reality (VR) systems, commonly known as immersive virtual environments (IVE), are ...