A Threefold Approach for Precise and Efficient Locomotion in Virtual Environments with Varying Accessibility

Abstract

This poster details the design and evaluation of Locomotion3 - a framework that allows users to freely alternate between real walking, walking-in-place (WIP), and a skateboard metaphor depending on whether navigation requires efficiency, precision, or both. The user study compared the framework to WIP locomotion and the skateboard metaphor and found that Locomotion3 achieves a balance between the efficiency of the skateboard metaphor and the precision of WIP locomotion.