CIDER: Collaborative Interior Design in Extended Reality

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2023

Authors

Pintani, D (Author) Other; Caputo, A (Author) Other; Mendes, D (Author) FEUP; Giachetti, A (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Initial page: 16:1

15th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter: Crossing HCI and AI, CHItaly 2023

Hybrid, Torino, 20 September 2023 through 22 September 2023

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Scopus - 4 Citations

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00Z-23C

DOI: 10.1145/3605390.3605419

Abstract (EN): Despite significant efforts dedicated to exploring the potential applications of collaborative mixed reality, the focus of the existing works is mostly related to the creation of shared virtual/mixed environments resolving concurrent manipulation issues rather than supporting an effective collaboration strategy for the design procedure. For this reason, we present CIDER, a system for the collaborative editing of 3D augmented scenes allowing two or more users to manipulate the virtual scene elements independently and without unexpected changes. CIDER is based on the use of "layers"encapsulating the state of the environment with private layers that can be edited independently and a global one collaboratively updated with "commit"operations. Using this system, implemented for the HoloLens 2 headsets and supporting multiple users, we performed a user test on a realistic interior design task, evaluating the general usability and comparing two different approaches for the management of the atomic commit: forced (single-phase) and voting (requiring consensus), analyzing the effects of this choice on the collaborative behavior. © 2023 ACM.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific