{"id":3076,"date":"2023-09-13T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:06:21","slug":"vr-notification-placement-does-a-context-aware-approach-improve-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/2023\/09\/13\/vr-notification-placement-does-a-context-aware-approach-improve-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldilocks Zoning: Evaluating a Gaze-Aware Approach to Task-Agnostic VR Notification Placement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2023\/08\/teaser_img-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2023\/08\/teaser_img-1.png 904w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2023\/08\/teaser_img-1-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2023\/08\/teaser_img-1-768x289.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While virtual reality (VR) offers immersive experiences, users need to remain aware of notifications from outside VR. However, inserting notifications into a VR experience can result in distraction or breaks in presence, since existing notification systems in VR use static placement and lack task and environment awareness. We address this challenge by introducing a novel notification placement technique, Goldilocks Zoning, which leverages a 360-degree heatmap generated using eye-tracking data in order to place notifications near salient areas of the environment without obstructing the primary task. To investigate the effectiveness of this technique, we conducted a dual-task experiment comparing Goldilocks Zoning to common notification placement techniques. Our findings reveal that for simple iconic notifications, placing the notification within the user&#8217;s visual field is more critical than choosing an ideal location. The findings also demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing eye-tracking history as a proxy for understanding user attention and task engagement in the VR setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While virtual reality (VR) offers immersive experiences, users need to remain aware of notifications from outside VR. However, inserting notifications into a VR experience can result in distraction or breaks in presence, since existing notification systems in VR use static placement and lack task and environment awareness. We address this challenge by introducing a novel <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/2023\/09\/13\/vr-notification-placement-does-a-context-aware-approach-improve-performance\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":3077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[515,509,78],"ppma_author":[466,391],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","tag-context-aware","tag-eye-tracking","tag-virtual-reality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2023\/08\/teaser_img.png","authors":[{"term_id":466,"user_id":335,"is_guest":0,"slug":"ciilo","display_name":"Cory Ilo","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/715e42664b3358101cfe4bb556a94092a52552fe4fa5351e072c24c70bc8252b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""},{"term_id":391,"user_id":331,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dbowman","display_name":"Doug Bowman","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2021\/01\/professional_photo2_2019-cropped-square-smaller-scaled.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2021\/01\/professional_photo2_2019-cropped-square-smaller-scaled.jpg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}