Immersive tele-guidance towards evoking empathy with people who are vision impaired

R Guarese, D Polson, F Zambetta - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel approach to promote empathy with people that have disabilities through
the development of an asymmetric collaborative experience. Our research aims to enable …

Xr towards tele-guidance: mixing realities in assistive technologies for blind and visually impaired people

R Guarese, E Pretty, F Zambetta - … on Virtual Reality and 3D User …, 2023 - computer.org
This work proposes the use of immersive asymmetric collaboration as an assistive
technology for people who are blind or visually impaired (BVI). Similar to tele-guidance (TG) …

Evoking empathy with visually impaired people through an augmented reality embodiment experience

R Guarese, E Pretty, H Fayek… - … Virtual Reality and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To promote empathy with people that have disabilities, we propose a multi-sensory
interactive experience that allows sighted users to embody having a visual impairment whilst …

Exploring the use of Mobile Devices as a Bridge for Cross-Reality Collaboration

R Vanukuru, EYL Do - 2023 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Augmented and Virtual Reality technologies enable powerful forms of spatial interaction with
a wide range of digital information. While AR and VR headsets are more affordable today …

Comparing gaze-supported modalities with empathic mixed reality interfaces in remote collaboration

A Jing, K Gupta, J McDade, GA Lee… - … Symposium on Mixed …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we share real-time collaborative gaze behaviours, hand pointing, gesturing,
and heart rate visualisations between remote collaborators using a live 360° panoramic …

Where We Stand and Where to Go: Building Bridges Between Real and Virtual Worlds for Collaboration

JP Castillo, S Assadian… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cross reality has redefined how individuals interact in the virtual and physical realms,
offering a comprehensive paradigm for communication and collaboration. A rigorous …

Exploring virtual environments by visually impaired using a mixed reality cane without visual feedback

L Zhang, K Wu, B Yang, H Tang… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Though virtual reality (VR) has been advanced to certain levels of maturity in recent years,
the general public, especially the population of the blind and visually impaired (BVI), still …

Avatars for co-located collaborations in hmd-based virtual environments

J Herder, N Brettschneider, J De Mooij… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-user virtual reality is transforming towards a social activity that is no longer only used
by remote users, but also in large-scale location-based experiences. Usage of realtime …

Virtual journalist: measuring and inducing cultural empathy by visualizing empathic perspectives in VR

AA Fernandez, CC Kim… - … on Mixed and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The concept of cultural empathy, which entails the ability to empathize with individuals from
diverse cultural backgrounds, has garnered attention across multiple disciplines. However …

Mixed reality in asymmetric collaborative environments: A research prototype for virtual city tours

N Feld, B Weyers - 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Augmented and virtual reality have the potential to improve various aspects of everyday life
such as tourism. An elementary part of tourism is the organization and execution of guided …