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Towards Deeper Understanding of Natural User Interactions in Virtual Reality Based Assembly Tasks
Ryan Ghamandi, Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych +2
We explore natural user interactions using a virtual reality simulation of a robot arm for assembly tasks. Using a Wizard-of-Oz study, participants completed collaborative LEGO and…
XR-First Design for Productivity: A Conceptual Framework for Enabling Efficient Task Switching in XR
Matt Gottsacker, Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych +3
A core component of completing tasks efficiently in computer-supported knowledge work is the ability for users to rapidly switch their focus (and interaction) across different appl…
Mitigating Response Delays in Free-Form Conversations with LLM-powered Intelligent Virtual Agents
Mykola Maslych, Mohammadreza Katebi, Christopher Lee +9
We investigated the challenges of mitigating response delays in free-form conversations with virtual agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) within Virtual Reality (VR). For…
A Culturally-diverse Multilingual Multimodal Video Benchmark & Model
Bhuiyan Sanjid Shafique, Ashmal Vayani, Muhammad Maaz +26
Large multimodal models (LMMs) have recently gained attention due to their effectiveness to understand and generate descriptions of visual content. Most existing LMMs are in Englis…
Exploring Perception-Based Techniques for Redirected Walking in VR: A Comprehensive Survey
Bradley Coles, Yahya Hmaiti, Joseph J. LaViola
We present a comprehensive survey of perception-based redirected walking (RDW) techniques in virtual reality (VR), presenting a taxonomy that serves as a framework for understandin…
The Fidelity-based Presence Scale (FPS): Modeling the Effects of Fidelity on Sense of Presence
Jacob Belga, Richard Skarbez, Yahya Hmaiti +3
Within the virtual reality (VR) research community, there have been several efforts to develop questionnaires with the aim of better understanding the sense of presence. Despite ha…