Tracking Socio-Spatial Activities in Virtual Reality (VR)

VR offers the possibility to create own realities independent from the physical reality. Immersed in VR, users can explore and interact with their virtual surroundings. In this work, you will explore how to comprehensibly display user triggered changes, movement patterns and interactions in a shared spatial VR across time and space. It will be your task to implement different layers of information for a VR scene before developing a menu in which users can alter the displayed information linked to prior users‘ activities. You will deal with the time and scalability dimensions of such traces and explore the duration of displaying such information as well as the tracking time.

Tasks:

• Implement different information layers of traces of prior user interactions.
• Create an interaction menu in VR that allows users to alter prior user's interaction visualization.
• Test your system and concept in a user study.

Requirements:

• Experience in either VR programming (Unity), C# or 3D modeling.
• Basic knowledge of user research.

Suggested Reading:

• Vichitvejpaisal et al. "Relive History: VR time travel at the world heritage site." 2019.
• Landeck et al. "Metachron: A framework for time perception research in VR." 2020.
• Stoev et al. "Exploring the past: a toolset for visualization of historical events in virtual environments."2001.