DocumentCode :
1446936
Title :
Change Blindness Phenomena for Virtual Reality Display Systems
Author :
Steinicke, Frank ; Bruder, Gerd ; Hinrichs, Klaus ; Willemsen, Pete
Author_Institution :
IEEE Visualization & Comput. Graphics Res. Group, Univ. of Munster, Munster, Germany
Volume :
17
Issue :
9
fYear :
2011
Firstpage :
1223
Lastpage :
1233
Abstract :
In visual perception, change blindness describes the phenomenon that persons viewing a visual scene may apparently fail to detect significant changes in that scene. These phenomena have been observed in both computer-generated imagery and real-world scenes. Several studies have demonstrated that change blindness effects occur primarily during visual disruptions such as blinks or saccadic eye movements. However, until now the influence of stereoscopic vision on change blindness has not been studied thoroughly in the context of visual perception research. In this paper, we introduce change blindness techniques for stereoscopic virtual reality (VR) systems, providing the ability to substantially modify a virtual scene in a manner that is difficult for observers to perceive. We evaluate techniques for semiimmersive VR systems, i.e., a passive and active stereoscopic projection system as well as an immersive VR system, i.e., a head-mounted display, and compare the results to those of monoscopic viewing conditions. For stereoscopic viewing conditions, we found that change blindness phenomena occur with the same magnitude as in monoscopic viewing conditions. Furthermore, we have evaluated the potential of the presented techniques for allowing abrupt, and yet significant, changes of a stereoscopically displayed virtual reality environment.
Keywords :
natural scenes; stereo image processing; three-dimensional displays; virtual reality; vision defects; visual perception; change blindness; computer-generated imagery; display systems; monoscopic viewing conditions; stereoscopic vision; virtual reality; visual disruptions; visual perception; visual scene; Blindness; Context; Humans; Observers; Virtual reality; Visual perception; Visualization; Change blindness; stereoscopic display; virtual reality.;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1077-2626
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TVCG.2011.41
Filename :
5710911
Link To Document :
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