Virtual reality (VR) users are often around bystanders, ie people in the real world the VR
user may want to interact with. To facilitate bystander-VR user interactions, technology …

Head-mounted displays (HMDs) increase immersion into virtual worlds. The problem is that
this limits headset users' awareness of bystanders: headset users cannot attend to …

Virtual reality (VR) is commonly used for entertainment applications but is also increasingly
employed for a large number of use cases such as digital prototyping or training workers …

The closed design of virtual reality (VR) head-mounted displays substantially limits users'
awareness of their real-world surroundings. This presents challenges when another person …

Virtual reality (VR) has increasingly been used in many areas, and the need to deliver
notifications in VR is also expected to increase accordingly. However, untimely interruptions …

Past research has proposed various hand redirection techniques for virtual reality (VR).
Such techniques modify a user's hand movements and have been successfully used to …

Research has begun to investigate the interruption of VR users but lacks an understanding
of how social factors (setting/relationship to the VR user) might impact the interruption and …

Electromyography (EMG) enables hands-free interactions by detecting muscle activity at
different human body locations. Previous studies have demonstrated that input performance …

Research has enabled virtual reality (VR) users to interact with the physical world by
blending the physical world view into the virtual environment. However, current solutions are …

Virtual reality (VR) platforms provide their users with immersive virtual environments, but
disconnect them from real-world events. The increasing length of VR sessions can therefore …