eprintid: 10132229 rev_number: 19 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/13/22/29 datestamp: 2021-08-03 12:05:52 lastmod: 2021-10-06 22:29:45 status_changed: 2021-08-03 12:05:52 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Medeiros, D creators_name: Anjos, RD creators_name: Pantidi, N creators_name: Huang, K creators_name: Sousa, M creators_name: Anslow, C creators_name: Jorge, J title: Promoting reality awareness in virtual reality through proxemics ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Head-Mounted Virtual reality (VR) systems provide full-immersive experiences to users and completely isolate them from the outside world, placing them in unsafe situations. Existing research proposed different alert-based solutions to address this. Our work builds on these studies on notification systems for VR environments from a different perspective. We focus on: (i) exploring alert systems to notify VR users about non-immersed bystanders' in socially related, non-critical interaction contexts; (ii) understanding how best to provide awareness of non-immersed bystanders while maintaining presence and immersion within the Virtual Environment(VE). To this end, we developed single and combined alert cues - leveraging proxemics, perception channels, and push/pull approaches and evaluated those via two user studies. Our findings indicate a strong preference towards maintaining immersion and combining audio and visual cues, push and pull notification techniques that evolve dynamically based on proximity. date: 2021-03-01 date_type: published publisher: IEEE official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VR50410.2021.00022 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1878602 doi: 10.1109/VR50410.2021.00022 isbn_13: 9780738125565 lyricists_name: Kuffner Dos Anjos, Rafael lyricists_id: RKUFF99 actors_name: Dewerpe, Marie actors_id: MDDEW97 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, VR 2021 place_of_pub: Lisboa, Portugal pagerange: 21-30 event_title: 2021 IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) book_title: 2021 IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) citation: Medeiros, D; Anjos, RD; Pantidi, N; Huang, K; Sousa, M; Anslow, C; Jorge, J; (2021) Promoting reality awareness in virtual reality through proxemics. In: 2021 IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). (pp. pp. 21-30). IEEE: Lisboa, Portugal. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10132229/8/Kuffner%20Dos%20Anjos_236461.pdf