Extended reality (XR) remote research: a survey of drawbacks and opportunities
File(s)
Accepted version
Author(s)
Ratcliffe, Jack
Soave, Francesco
Bryan-Kinns, Nick
Tokarchuk, Laurissa
Farkhatdinov, Ildar
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Extended Reality (XR) technology - such as virtual and augmented reality - is now widely used in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), social science and psychology experimentation. However, these experiments are predominantly deployed in-lab with a co-present researcher. Remote experiments, without co-present researchers, have not flourished, despite the success of remote approaches for non-XR investigations. This paper summarises findings from a 30-item survey of 46 XR researchers to understand perceived limitations and benefits of remote XR experimentation. Our thematic analysis identifies concerns common with non-XR remote research, such as participant recruitment, as well as XR-specific issues, including safety and hardware variability. We identify potential positive affordances of XR technology, including leveraging data collection functionalities builtin to HMDs (e.g. hand, gaze tracking) and the portability and reproducibility of an experimental setting. We suggest that XR technology could be conceptualised as an interactive technology and a capable data-collection device suited for remote experimentation.
Date Issued
2021-05-06
Date Acceptance
2021-05-01
Citation
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021, pp.1-13
Publisher
ACM
Start Page
1
End Page
13
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Copyright Statement
© 2021 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.
Identifier
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445170
Source
CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subjects
cs.HC
cs.HC
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2021-05-08
Finish Date
2021-05-13
Coverage Spatial
Yokohama, Japan
Date Publish Online
2021-05-07