This early-stage work presents the first step in designing for user privacy and data privacy awareness in the metaverse from an ethical standpoint. The goal of this research is to document and analyze the privacy challenges that come from a prevalent metaverse application, align them with the related literature, and Read more…
The Projection Mapping Situational Layer (PMSL) is a tabletop projection mapping application, where the real-time positioning data of sea vessels in the Vesterålen district are visualized. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway (no. 321550) through the Gaia Vesterålen project. A presentation video supporting the following scientific Read more…
InVizAR’s main objective was to explore efficient and user-friendly AR visualizations of sensor data describing “invisible fields”, like electromagnetic fields or radio signals. InVizAR was a short-scale, 9-month project targeting the development of prototypes for its visualization goal. Two prototype versions (A. and B.) were developed with the following features: Read more…
In our XR lab, VR locomotion, an important interaction component that enables navigation in VR environments, has been extensively investigated from conceptual and empirical standpoints. An empirical comparison of prevalent VR locomotion techniques, i.e., Walking-in-place (WIP), Controller, and Teleportation has been carried out (see Related scientific articles), to inform the Read more…
On June 8th, the Gaia System v1 (first prototype) of the Gaia Vesterålen project (led by Museum Nord-Lofotr Næringsdrift) was presented at the Sortland Museum. SINTEF Digital is the technical manager and a research partner in the project. The Gaia System uses projection mapping technology (or spatial Augmented Reality, if Read more…
In this project, prevalent VR text-input techniques, such as ray-casting, drum-like keyboard, head-directed input, and split keyboard, have been empirically evaluated. Results are described in the related scientific articles. The project was funded by the Research Council of Norway through the Centre for Service Innovation. A short video demonstration of Read more…
In this 2-month long internal project, the combination of AR visualization and personal assistants for Building Information Modelling (BIM) purposes was tested by developing an early prototype. The project was funded by internal SEP funding through the Research Council of Norway. A video demonstration of the early AR BIM prototype:
The DARWIN Virtual Reality Game was created as a tool for training users on how to use the DARWIN Resilience Management Guidelines in a crisis simulation. The project was funded by EU’s H2020 programme (project page). A video demonstration of the Darwin VR game: An interview on the Darwin project Read more…
In this project, we investigated the design of audio AR systems for urban tourism through the development and evaluation of prototype audio AR tour guides. Two prototype Audio AR tour guide applications were developed: AudioNear and AudioTransit (see Related scientific articles). The project was funded by the Research Council of Read more…
In this project, we used VR to develop new service prototyping environments and more realistic and improved service-journey simulations. To that end, two new VR service prototyping methods were developed, presented, and evaluated: The Virtual Bodystorming method and the VR Service Walkthough. The project was funded by the Research Council Read more…