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VRBox: A Virtual Reality Augmented Sandbox for Immersive Playfulness, Creativity and Exploration

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Thomas Fröhlich,

Dmitry Alexandrovsky,

Rainer MalakaAuthors Info & Claims

CHI PLAY '18: Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

Pages 153 - 162

https://doi.org/10.1145/3242671.3242697

Published: 23 October 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Augmented sandboxes have been used as playful and educative tools to create, explore and understand complex models. However, current solutions lack interactive capabilities, missing more immersive experiences such as exploring the sand landscape from a first person perspective. We extend the interaction space of augmented sandboxes into virtual reality (VR) to offer a VR-environment that contains a landscape, which the user designs via interacting with real sand while wearing a virtual reality head-mounted display (HMD). In this paper, we present our current VR-sandbox system consisting of a box with sand, triple Kinect depth sensing, a virtual reality HMD, and hand tracking, as well as an interactive world simulation use case for exploration and evaluation. Our work explores the important and timely topics how to integrate rich haptic interaction with natural materials into VR and how to track and present real physical materials in VR. In a qualitative evaluation with nine experts from computer graphics, game design, and didactics we identified potentials, limitations as well as future application scenarios.

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VRBox: A Virtual Reality Augmented Sandbox for Immersive Playfulness, Creativity and Exploration
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Empirical studies in HCI
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Virtual reality
  2. Interaction design
    1. Empirical studies in interaction design

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CHI PLAY '18: Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

October 2018

563 pages

ISBN:9781450356244

DOI:10.1145/3242671

General Chairs:
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller
Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
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Daniel Johnson
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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Ben Schouten
Eindhoven University of Technology and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
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Play & Interactive Experiences for Learning Lab, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
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Peta Wyeth
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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