Designing Real-time, Continuous QoE Score Acquisition Techniques for HMD-based 360°VR Video Watching

Watching HMD-based 360° video has become in-creasing popular as a medium for immersive viewing of photo-realistic content. To evaluate subjective video quality, researchers typically prompt users to provide an overall Quality of Experience (QoE) score after viewing a stimulus. However, since users can adjust their viewport throughout a 360°...

CEAP-360VR: A Continuous Physiological and Behavioral Emotion Annotation Dataset for 360 VR Videos

Watching 360 videos using Virtual Reality (VR) head-mounted displays (HMDs) provides interactive and immersive experiences, where videos can evoke different emotions. Existing emotion self-report techniques within VR however are either retrospective or interrupt the immersive experience. To address this, we introduce the Continuous...

Annotation Tool for Precise Emotion Ground Truth Label Acquisition while Watching 360° VR Videos

We demonstrate an HMD-based annotation tool for collecting precise emotion ground truth labels while users are watching 360° videos in Virtual Reality (VR). Our tool uses an HTC VIVE Pro Eye HMD for displaying 360° videos, a Joy-Con controller for inputting emotion annotations, and an Empatica E4 wristband for capturing physiological signals....

The Virtual Reality Scenario Method: Moving from Imagination to Immersion in Criminal Decision-making Research

Objectives: This study proposes an alternative hypothetical scenario method capitalizing on the potential of virtual reality (VR). Rather than asking participants to imagine themselves in a specific situation, VR perceptually immerses them in it. We hypothesized that experiencing a scenario in VR would increase feelings of being “present” in...