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Design Principles for Room-Scale Virtual Reality: A Design Experiment in Three Dimensions

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Designing for a Digital and Globalized World (DESRIST 2018)

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Virtual reality hardware, and software tools that support developing for virtual reality applications, are rapidly maturing. Specifically, room-scale virtual reality hardware that lets users walk around in virtual environments is becoming increasingly easier to purchase and adopt. With this follows a need for researching potential design theories for how to design and evaluate this class of systems. We contribute with a nascent design theory containing a high-level conceptual framework of dimensions and design principles of how to design room-scale virtual reality applications that create engaging user experiences. We identify meta-requirements from kernel theories from the human-computer interaction paradigm and evaluate two different VR artefacts and their applicability. Two central, higher level design principles are derived from the evaluation.

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    Jonas Schjerlund, Magnus Rotvit Perlt Hansen & Josefine Gill Jensen

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Schjerlund, J., Hansen, M.R.P., Jensen, J.G. (2018). Design Principles for Room-Scale Virtual Reality: A Design Experiment in Three Dimensions. In: Chatterjee, S., Dutta, K., Sundarraj, R. (eds) Designing for a Digital and Globalized World. DESRIST 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10844. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91800-6_1

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