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1. Course Schedule
L
1. Lecture Slides
  Reading
O
1. Oculus Best Practices Guide
  Reading
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1. Unity
  Platform
V
1. Virtual Reality, LaValle 2016
  Reading
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1. YouTube Lectures: VR Systems and Humans
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HW: Bad Design, UI Havoc¶

Due date: .

Read¶

To complete this homework, you might want to refer to the following readings:

Oculus Best Practices Guide
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Lecture slides.
Virtual Reality, LaValle 2016
.

Download¶

Start with downloading the following VR application:

BadDesign.rar

Find Design Flaws¶

The objective of this assignment is to help you better understand and recognize bad and good design practices when it comes to user interaction, UI, and UX in VR applications. Once you download the above file, connect your Oculus HMD, uncompress the whole package behind the link, and start the Unity Project VR Samples.exe in the headset. The application contains seven scenes. Each scene contains one bad design practice. Your task is to recognize these design problems and answer our questions about what you see/perceive the issue are, and how things could be done differently to improve user experience in VR applications.

This homework can also be seen as an inspiration for your final project, in which you need to implement more perceptual flaws/tunings/illusions of your choice.

Question 1¶

Mention one bad design choice in Scene 1.

Question 2¶

What could improve the discomfort in Scene 1?

Question 3¶

Mention one bad design choice in Scene 2.

Question 4¶

What could improve the discomfort in Scene 2?

Question 5¶

Which UI choice in Scene 3 is better and why?

Question 6¶

Mention one bad design choice in Scene 4.

Question 7¶

What could improve the discomfort in Scene 4?

Question 8¶

Mention one bad design choice in Scene 5.

Question 9¶

What could improve the discomfort in Scene 5?

Question 10¶

Choose the best option for the menu design in Scene 6.

It is most comfortable when the menu follows your head.

It is most comfortable when the menu occupies a large portion of your FOV.

When the menu follows your movement, it would be better to introduce a bigger lag in the movement.

When the menu follows your movement, it would be better to make it smaller to be less noticable.

It is better to place the menu close to your eyes, because it reduces vection.

Neither of these design choices are good. It would be better to place a stationary menu in the scene (just like in the main scene of this homework).

None of the above.

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Question 11¶

What could improve the discomfort in Scene 7?

Question 12¶

Recommend one multiple choice question for this homework. If you design a good question, we might use it in the next installment of the course. Make sure to include multiple answer options, and to point out the correct answer, to get full points.