VR reading UIs: Assessing text parameters for reading in VR

Tilman Dingler; Kai Steven Kunze; Benjamin Outram

doi:10.1145/3170427.3188695

VR reading UIs: Assessing text parameters for reading in VR

Tilman Dingler, Kai Steven Kunze, Benjamin Outram

Graduate School of Media Design

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Virtual Reality (VR) devices have increasingly sparked both commercial and academic interest. While applications range from immersive games to real-world simulations, little attention has been given to the display of text in virtual environments. Since reading remains to be a crucial activity to consume information in the real and digital world, we set out to investigate user interfaces for reading in VR. To explore comfortable reading settings, we conducted a user study with 18 participants focusing on parameters, such as text size, convergence, as well as view box dimensions and positioning. This paper presents the first step in our work towards guidelines for effectively displaying text in VR.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Engage with CHI
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Volume	2018-April
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356206, 9781450356213
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188695
Publication status	Published - 2018 Apr 20
Event	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2018 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 2018 Apr 21 → 2018 Apr 26

Other

Other	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2018
Country	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	18/4/21 → 18/4/26

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Keywords

Reading
Reading Comfort
Text Parameters
Virtual Reality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Dingler, T., Kunze, K. S., & Outram, B. (2018). VR reading UIs: Assessing text parameters for reading in VR. In CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI (Vol. 2018-April). [LBW094] Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188695

VR reading UIs : Assessing text parameters for reading in VR. / Dingler, Tilman; Kunze, Kai Steven; Outram, Benjamin.

CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. Vol. 2018-April Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. LBW094.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Dingler, T, Kunze, KS & Outram, B 2018, VR reading UIs: Assessing text parameters for reading in VR. in CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Engage with CHI. vol. 2018-April, LBW094, Association for Computing Machinery, 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2018, Montreal, Canada, 18/4/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188695

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