The research group has social acceptability, group experiences, and virtual reality on the mind at ACM CHI 2019.
Along with colleagues from Ulm University, LMU Munich, Universität Hamburg, and NYU, we organised a workshop on the challenges for using immersive headsets in public and social settings. As part of the workshop, we set out in Glasgow to get some first hand experience.
Workshop participants try Oculus Go in a busy restaurant.
You can access our workshop abstract here:
Challenges Using Head-Mounted Displays in Shared and Social Spaces
CHI EA ’19 Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019
We also presented our work on the social acceptance using virtual reality headsets while travelling and presented new techniques for improving user comfort and acceptance of these devices using mixed reality techniques.
You can access the full text here:
PlaneVR: Social Acceptability of Virtual Reality for Aeroplane Passengers
CHI ’19 Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019