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This bachelor thesis investigates the utilization of the Wii Balance Board
in virtual reality applications. For the investigation a snowboard game is
implemented, in which the virtual avatar can be controlled with the pressure
sensors of the Wii Balance Board. The user should be able to move
playfully and intuitively through the virtual environment by balancing his
body. The immersiveness and the influence on motion sickness and cybersickness
will be investigated. In Addition, the Wii Balance Board will be
compared with the Xbox Controller. The aim of the work is to evaluate
whether the Wii Balance Board is able to allow free movement in virtual
environments and whether it is more advantageous to use it rather than
a conventional controller. The results of the survey indicate that the Wii
Balance Board has a positive influence on the immersivness of the game,
despite better game results by using a conventional controller. The survey
also reveals that the use of the Wii Balance Board is responsible for more
motion-sickness/cybersickness cases.
Diese Arbeit macht sich zur Aufgabe, das effiziente Navigieren in virtuellen Szenen näher zu betrachten, um bereits bestehende Navigationsmetaphern genauer zu erforschen und für unterschiedliche Einsatzgebiete anwendbar zu machen. Betrachtet werden Softwareprodukte für durchschnittliche Desktop-Benutzer, die mit Standard-Eingabegeräten arbeiten. Hierzu werden zunächst bestehende Navigationsmetaphern analysiert und Möglichkeiten der Benutzerperspektive sowie andere Hilfsmittel im Hinblick auf ihr aktuelles Anwendungsgebiet diskutiert. Anschließend wird ein theoretisches Testszenario erstellt, in dem alle analysierten Metaphern betrachtet und verglichen werden können. Ein Teil dieses Szenarios wird praktisch umgesetzt, in eine Testumgebung integriert und anhand von Benutzertests evaluiert. Zuletzt werden Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt, inwiefern die betrachteten Navigationsmetaphern in verschiedenen Einsatzgebieten sinnvoll und effizient anwendbar gemacht werden können.
Research has shown that people recognize personality, gender, inner states and many other items of information by simply observing human motion. Therefore the expressive human motion seems to be a valuable non-verbal communication channel. On the quest for more believable characters in virtual three dimensional simulations a great amount of visual realism has been achieved during the last decades. However, while interacting with synthetic characters in real-time simulations, often human users still sense an unnatural stiffness. This disturbance in believability is generally caused by a lack of human behavior simulation. Expressive motions, which convey personality and emotional states can be of great help to create more plausible and life-like characters. This thesis explores the feasibility of an automatic generation of emotionally expressive animations from given neutral character motions. Such research is required since common animation methods, such as manual modeling or motion capturing techniques, are too costly to create all possible variations of motions needed for interactive character behavior. To investigate how emotions influence human motion relevant literature from various research fields has been viewed and certain motion rules and features have been extracted. These movement domains were validated in a motion analysis and implemented in a system in an exemplary manner capable of automating the expression of angry, sad and happy states in a virtual character through its body language. Finally, the results were evaluated in user test.