Exploring personalized hands-only teleportation in virtual reality
department or school: Science, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, Department of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Chowdhury, Sohan
issued: 2023-04-24T16:47:56Z
issued: 2023
related degree: Master of Science - MSc
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Teleportation is a widely used locomotion technique in Virtual Reality (VR) that allows users to move through a virtual environment. Traditionally, handheld controllers have been used for teleportation, however, recent advancements in VR hand tracking have opened the opportunity for more natural, intuitive and immersive controller-free teleportation. In this thesis, I design and develop novel hand-based teleportation techniques allowing users to perform teleportations in VR only using their hands without using any controllers. I explore two core aspects: (i) WriArm: Using hand gestures with combined wrist and arm movements for a complete controller-free hands-only teleportation technique in VR, (ii) PAWS: Considering different physical attributes of users to personalize the controller-free system to each user. Results show WriArm is 9% faster than the arm-based technique, and PAWS improves a further 10% over WriArm, especially for difficult destinations. Users also preferred my techniques and found them easier to use, making them a viable hand-based controller-free alternative for navigating VR environments. I conclude with design considerations for hands-only teleportation design for controller-free virtual reality.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/84437
note: Exploring Personalized Hands-OnlyTeleportation in Virtual RealitybySohan ChowdhuryA THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OFTHE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OFMASTER OF SCIENCEinTHE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES(Computer Science)THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA(Okanagan)April 2023© Sohan Chowdhury, 2023The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommendto the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation en-titled:Exploring Personalized Hands-Only Teleportation in VirtualRealitysubmitted by Sohan Chowdhury in partial fulfillment of the requirements ofthe degree of Master of Science.Dr. Mohammad Khalad Hasan, CMPS, Irving K. Barber Faculty of ScienceSupervisorDr. Ramon Lawrence, CMPS, Irving K. Barber Faculty of ScienceSupervisory Committee MemberDr. Abbas Milani, School of Engineering, Faculty of Applied ScienceSupervisory Committee MemberDr. Megan Smith, Faculty of Creative and Critical StudiesUniversity ExamineriiAbstractTeleportation is a widely used locomotion technique in Virtual Reality(VR) that allows users to move through a virtual environment. Tradition-ally, handheld controllers have been used for teleportation, however, recentadvancements in VR hand tracking have opened the opportunity for morenatural, intuitive and immersive controller-free teleportation. In this the-sis, I design and develop novel hand-based teleportation techniques allowingusers to perform teleportations in VR only using their hands without usingany controllers. I explore two core aspects: (i) WriArm: Using hand ges-tures with combined wrist and arm movements for a complete controller-freehands-only teleportation technique in VR, (ii) PAWS: Considering differentphysical attributes of users to personalize the controller-free system to eachuser. Results show WriArm is 9% faster than the arm-based technique,and PAWS improves a further 10% over WriArm, especially for difficultdestinations. Users also preferred my techniques and found them easier touse,…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2023-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0431386
language: eng
degree discipline: Computer Science
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Hasan, DMohammad Khalad
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84437