Titre / Title: Investigating Benefits and Limitations of Asymmetric Collaboration for Designing Sensory Experiences in Mixed Reality
Projet Ciblé (PC) / Targeted Project (PC): PC1 CATS – Collaboration spaces / Collaboration across heterogeneous spaces
Commentaires / Comments: The topic investigates asymmetric collaboration to design sensory experiences (e.g., vibrotactile feedback) in mixed reality. We want to study benefits and limitations of having a user in VR designing experiences in-situ, and a collaborator sitting at a desk that may control more or other parameters of the experience.
Etat du sujet / State of the subject: Disponible / Available
Date de publication / Publication date: 08/04/2025
Institution de rattachement / Institutional affiliation: Inria (the thesis will be hosted at the Inria centre of the University of Lille in the LOKI project team).
Résumé / Abstract: Immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR), support creating virtual worlds to simulate various scenarios. Tactile and visual experiences can increase the sense of immersion and make virtual objects tangible. Designing them is challenging and requires to be immersed in the virtual environment, which is tiring and limits the kind of parameters controlled. Designers must therefore often switch back-and-forth between the virtual environment and a desktop computer to fine-tune the experience. This project studies the benefits and limitations of asymmetric collaboration to design such sensory experiences, i.e., one user is immersed in the virtual environment to feel the experiences and design them in-situ while a collaborator controls its parameters in more details on a desktop computer, as opposed to a single user switching back-and-forth between the two setups. Our goal is to identify whether collaborative setups can leverage the benefits of each environment while minimizing their respective limitations.
Détails du sujet / Subject details: PDF
Directeur / directrice de thèse / Main advisor: Thomas Pietrzak (thomas.pietrzak@univ-lille.fr) – CRIStAL, Université de Lille (France)
Encadrant(e) de thèse / Secondary advisor: Bruno Fruchard (bruno.fruchard@inria.fr) – CRIStAL, Inria (France)
Autre Encadrant(e) de thèse / Additional advisor: Donald Degraen (donald.degraen@canterbury.ac.nz) – HIT Lab NZ (New Zealand)
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