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Lessons learnt running distributed and remote mixed reality experiments

Steed, Anthony; Archer, Daniel; Brandstätter, Klara; Congdon, Ben J; Friston, Sebastian; Ganapathi, Priya; Giunchi, Daniele; ... Thiel, Felix J; + view all (2023) Lessons learnt running distributed and remote mixed reality experiments. Frontiers in Computer Science , 4 , Article 966319. 10.3389/fcomp.2022.966319. Green open access

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Abstract

One traditional model of research on mixed-reality systems, is the laboratory-based experiment where a number of small variants of a user experience are presented to participants under the guidance of an experimenter. This type of experiment can give reliable and generalisable results, but there are arguments for running experiments that are distributed and remote from the laboratory. These include, expanding the participant pool, reaching specific classes of user, access to a variety of equipment, and simply because laboratories might be inaccessible. However, running experiments out of the laboratory brings a different set of issues into consideration. Here, we present some lessons learnt in running eleven distributed and remote mixed-reality experiments. We describe opportunities and challenges of this type of experiment as well as some technical lessons learnt.

Type: Article
Title: Lessons learnt running distributed and remote mixed reality experiments
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3389/fcomp.2022.966319
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2022.966319
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2023 Steed, Archer, Brandstätter, Congdon, Friston, Ganapathi, Giunchi, Izzouzi, Park, Swapp and Thiel. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Keywords: virtual reality, mixed reality, distributed of experiments, avatars, social virtual environments
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10163294
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