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Initial Evaluation of Different Types of Virtual Reality Locomotion Towards a Pedestrian Simulator for Urban and Transportation Planning

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Julian Kreimeier,

Daniela Ullmann,

Timo GötzelmannAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382958

Published: 25 April 2020 Publication History

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The simulation of human behaviour in today's travel demand models is usually based on the assumption of a rational behaviour of its participants. Since travel demand models have been applied in particular for motorized traffic, only little is known about the influence of variables that affect both the choice of trip destination and the route decision in pedestrian and cycling models. In order to create urban spaces that encourage cycling and walking, we propose a VR (Virtual Reality) pedestrian simulator which involves walk-in-place locomotion. Thus, identical conditions are obtained for all subjects which is not feasible in real world field research with naturally varying environmental influences. As a first step, our qualitative and quantitative user study revealed that walking in a VR treadmill felt safest and most intuitive, although walking in it took in return more energy than walking-in-place with VR trackers only.

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Index Terms

Initial Evaluation of Different Types of Virtual Reality Locomotion Towards a Pedestrian Simulator for Urban and Transportation Planning
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation types and techniques
      1. Interactive simulation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. User studies
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Virtual reality

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CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/3334480

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