Evaluating VR driving simulation from a player experience perspective

Marcel Walch; Julian Frommel; Katja Rogers; Felix Schüssel; Philipp Hock; David Dobbelstein; Michael Weber

doi:10.1145/3027063.3053202

Evaluating VR driving simulation from a player experience perspective

Marcel Walch, Julian Frommel, Katja Rogers, Felix Schüssel, Philipp Hock, David Dobbelstein, Michael Weber

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Abstract

The majority of HCI research in the field of automotive interfaces and driver-vehicle interaction is conducted utilizing driving simulators. High-fidelity simulators are expensive; in consequence, many researchers use consumer gaming hardware and flat screens as an alternative. In recent years VR devices have become affordable and are applied already in some driving studies. It has not been shown whether driving simulations can use VR to increase immersion in low-cost setups. We conducted a pilot study with 20 participants using a racing game as simulation software. The results of this pilot study indicate that using a VR headset can potentially dissociate participants to a higher degree from the real world compared to the use of flat screens. However, participants felt a higher discomfort using the VR HMD. Despite expectations, today's VR technology does not appear to be a generally better choice than flat screens for driving simulator studies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2017 Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Explore, Innovate, Inspire
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	2982-2989
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450346566
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053202
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2017
Event	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017 - Denver, United States Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	Part F127655

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Conference	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	6/05/17 → 11/05/17

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Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM).

Keywords

Driving simulation
HMD
Immersion
Player experience
Simulator sickness
Virtual reality

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Walch, M., Frommel, J., Rogers, K., Schüssel, F., Hock, P., Dobbelstein, D., & Weber, M. (2017). Evaluating VR driving simulation from a player experience perspective. In CHI 2017 Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire (pp. 2982-2989). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. Part F127655). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053202

Walch, Marcel ; Frommel, Julian ; Rogers, Katja et al. / Evaluating VR driving simulation from a player experience perspective. CHI 2017 Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. pp. 2982-2989 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Walch, M, Frommel, J, Rogers, K, Schüssel, F, Hock, P, Dobbelstein, D & Weber, M 2017, Evaluating VR driving simulation from a player experience perspective. in CHI 2017 Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, vol. Part F127655, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 2982-2989, 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017, Denver, United States, 6/05/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053202

Evaluating VR driving simulation from a player experience perspective. / Walch, Marcel; Frommel, Julian; Rogers, Katja et al.
CHI 2017 Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 2982-2989 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. Part F127655).

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