Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI) has been gaining considerable attention in HRI research in recent years. However, the HRI community lacks a set of shared terminology and framework for characterizing aspects of mixed reality interfaces, presenting serious problems for future research. Therefore, it is important to have a common set of terms and concepts that can be used to precisely describe and organize the diverse array of work being done within the field. In this article, we present a novel taxonomic framework for different types of VAM-HRI interfaces, composed of four main categories of virtual design elements (VDEs). We present and justify our taxonomy and explain how its elements have been developed over the past 30 years as well as the current directions VAM-HRI is headed in the coming decade.
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Virtual Big Heads: Analysis of Human Perception and Comfort of Head Scales in Social Virtual Reality
- Award ID(s):
- 1800961
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10343456
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 425 to 433
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/VR46266.2020.00063
