5 papers
Towards Smart Workplaces: Understanding Mood-Influencing Factors of the Physical Workspace in Collaborative Group Settings
Tzu-Hui Wu, Sebastian Cmentowski, Yunyin Lou +2
Group mood plays a crucial role in shaping workspace experiences, influencing group dynamics, team performance, and creativity. The perceived group mood depends on many, often subc…
Outpace Reality: A Novel Augmented-Walking Technique for Virtual Reality Games
Sebastian Cmentowski, Fabian Kievelitz, Jens Krüger
The size of most virtual environments exceeds the tracking space available for physical walking. One solution to this disparity is to extend the available walking range by augmenti…
GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Andrey Krekhov, Sebastian Cmentowski, Katharina Emmerich +2
Virtual reality games are often centered around our feeling of "being there". That presence can be significantly enhanced by supporting physical walking. Although modern virtual re…
Proceedings of the Purposeful XR Workshop for CHI 2025
Elizabeth Childs, Samir Ghosh, Sebastian Cmentowski +2
This volume represents the proceedings of Workshop 27 on Purposeful XR: Affordances, Challenges, and Speculations for an Ethical Future, held together with the CHI conference on Hu…
From Solo to Social: Exploring the Dynamics of Player Cooperation in a Co-located Cooperative Exergame
Derrick M. Wang, Sebastian Cmentowski, Reza Hadi Mogavi +4
Digital games offer rich social experiences and promote valuable skills, but they fall short in addressing physical inactivity. Exergames, which combine exercise with gameplay, hav…