Designing Avatar Instructions for Walking Tasks

Aufgabenstellung / Topic:

Extended Reality (XR) avatars have been shown to improve instructional guidance for complex tasks with first-person visualizations being especially effective in static scenarios. However, it remains unclear how these approaches perform in dynamic contexts such as walking tasks. The goal of this project is therefore to design, implement, and evaluate different XR-based visualization techniques for instructional support during a walking task.

You will:

• Conduct a structured literature review on XR-based instructional methods
• Design and develop XR instructions for a dynamic walking task
• Plan and carry out a user study to evaluate the proposed approaches
• Analyze and summarize the findings in a written thesis and present them to an audience
• (Optional) Contribute to the writing of a research paper

You need:

• Strong interest in XR research, particularly in avatar-based instruction
• Experience in XR development (ideally using Unity, Meta Quest 3, and avatar animation)
• Strong English communication and academic writing skills

References

• Through the Expert's Eyes: Exploring Asynchronous Expert Perspectives and Gaze Visualizations in XR
• Do It Fast, Forget It Fast: How Timing and Limb Visualizations Affect First-Person Augmented Reality Instructions
• An Exploratory Study of Augmented Reality Presence for Tutoring Machine Tasks