Campus Units
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, Virtual Reality Applications Center, Gerontology
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
9-2020
Journal or Book Title
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
Volume
26
Issue
3
First Page
480
Last Page
492
Research Focus Area(s)
Ergonomics and Human Factors
DOI
10.1037/xap0000263
Abstract
Teleporting is a popular interface to allow virtual reality users to explore environments that are larger than the available walking space. When teleporting, the user positions a marker in the virtual environment and is instantly transported without any self-motion cues. Five experiments were designed to evaluate the spatial cognitive consequences of teleporting and to identify environmental cues that could mitigate those costs. Participants performed a triangle completion task by traversing 2 outbound path legs before pointing to the unmarked path origin. Locomotion was accomplished via walking or 2 common implementations of the teleporting interface distinguished by the concordance between movement of the body and movement through the virtual environment. In the partially concordant teleporting interface, participants teleported to translate (change position) but turned the body to rotate. In the discordant teleporting interface, participants teleported to translate and rotate. Across all 5 experiments, discordant teleporting produced larger errors than partially concordant teleporting which produced larger errors than walking, reflecting the importance of translational and rotational self-motion cues. Furthermore, geometric boundaries (room walls or a fence) were necessary to mitigate the spatial cognitive costs associated with teleporting, and landmarks were helpful only in the context of a geometric boundary.
Copyright Owner
American Psychological Association
Copyright Date
2020
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Cherep, Lucia A.; Lim, Alex F.; Kelly, Jonathan W.; Acharya, Devi; Velasco, Alfredo; Bustamante, Emanuel; Ostrander, Alec G.; and Gilbert, Stephen B., "Spatial Cognitive Implications of Teleporting Through Virtual Environments" (2020). Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Publications. 203.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/imse_pubs/203
Comments
This is a manuscript of an article published as Cherep, Lucia A., Alex F. Lim, Jonathan W. Kelly, Devi Acharya, Alfredo Velasco, Emanuel Bustamante, Alec G. Ostrander, and Stephen B. Gilbert. "Spatial cognitive implications of teleporting through virtual environments." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 26, no. 3 (2020): 480-492. DOI: 10.1037/xap0000263. Posted with permission.