Researchers reference realism in digital games without sufficient specificity. Without clarity
about the dimensions of realism, we cannot assess how and when to aim for a higher …

Statistical Significance Testing--or Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST)--is common
to quantitative CHI PLAY research. Drawing from recent work in HCI and psychology …

Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a major psychological theory of human motivation, has
become increasingly popular in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research on games and …

Standard controllers for virtual reality (VR) lack sophisticated means to convey a realistic,
kinesthetic impression of size, resistance or inertia. We present the concept and …

Questionnaires are among the most common research tools in virtual reality (VR) user
studies. Transitioning from virtuality to reality for giving self-reports on VR experiences can …

Providing haptic feedback in virtual reality to make the experience more realistic has
become a strong focus of research in recent years. The resulting haptic feedback systems …

Force feedback is said to be the next frontier in virtual reality (VR). Recently, with consumers
pushing forward with untethered VR, researchers turned away from solutions based on …

To provide immersive haptic experiences, proxy-based haptic feedback systems for virtual
reality (VR) face two central challenges:(1) similarity, and (2) colocation. While to solve …

Higher resolution is one of the main directions and drivers in the development of virtual
reality (VR) head-mounted displays (HMDs). However, given its associated higher cost, it is …

With the continuing development of affordable immersive virtual reality (VR) systems, there
is now a growing market for consumer content. The current form of consumer systems is not …