Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

5-2024

Abstract

To enhance interactions in VR, many techniques introduce offsets between the virtual and real-world position of users’ hands. Nevertheless, such hand redirection (HR) techniques are only effective as long as they go unnoticed by users—not disrupting the VR experience. While several studies consider how much unnoticeable redirection can be applied, these focus on mid-air floating hands that are disconnected from users’ bodies. Increasingly, VR avatars are embodied as being directly connected with the user’s body, which provide more visual cue anchoring, and may therefore reduce the unnoticeable redirection threshold. In this work, we studied more complete avatars and their effect on the sense of embodiment and the detectability of HR. We found that higher avatar completeness increases embodiment, and we provide evidence for the absence of practically relevant effects on the detectability of HR.

Keywords

Virtual reality, hand redirection, detection thresholds, avatar embodiment, illusions

Discipline

Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, May 11-16

First Page

1

Last Page

9

ISBN

9798400703300

Identifier

10.1145/3613904.3641933

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641933

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