RICELab Rethinking Interaction Collaboration and Engagement

Mixed reality (AR/VR) will soon change how we interact other people and information, allowing us to interact across time and space. This project explores fundamental questions of how we can achieve those goals, and how mixed reality interfaces should be designed to enable these new forms of interaction.

Smaller subprojects have addressed the following questions:

• How do people expect to use gestures to interact with holograms [Pham, T., Vermeulen, J., Tang, A., and MacDonald, L. (2018). Scale Impacts Elicited Gestures for Manipulating Holograms: Implications for AR Gesture Design. In DIS 2018: Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 227--240.] ?
• How can we help remote friends with physical tasks [Tang, A., Fakourfar, O., Neustaedter, C., and Bateman, S. (2017). Collaboration in 360° Videochat: Challenges and Opportunities. In DIS 2017: Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2017, 1327--1339.] [Feick, M., Mok, T., Tang, A., Oehlberg, L., and Sharlin, E. (2018). Perspective on and Re-Orientation of Physical Proxies in Object-Focused Remote Collaboration. In CHI 2018: Proceedings of the 2018 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paper 281.] [Fakourfar, O., Ta, K., Tang, R., Bateman, S., and Tang, A. (2016). Stabilized Annotations for Mobile Remote Assistance. In CHI 2016: Proceedings of the 2016 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1548--1560.] ?
• How can we communicate with people who are not wearing HMDs?
• How can we use mixed reality to preserve making and maker activities?

We are interested in exploring the use of mixed reality to enable new forms of communication across distance (where people are remote from one another) and across time (pre-recorded for use in the future).

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