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Moving indoors: a systematic literature review of locomotion in virtual indoor environments

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Pages 173-195 | Received 15 Jun 2022, Accepted 19 Feb 2023, Published online: 19 Mar 2023
 

ABSTRACT

Virtual indoor environments provide a unique combination of indoor cartography, virtual reality, and virtual locomotion. So far however, the indoor aspect of such an environment seems to be neglected even though it may affect how the locomotion of users is conducted as well as how this affects their spatial behaviour. To get an idea about the state of the research, systematic review of peer-reviewed articles mainly from the Scopus database was conducted in this paper. It aims to get a broad idea about the interest in research of virtual locomotion and to figure out what type of research in the indoor environment was conducted. Special interest was put on the types of locomotion techniques, their interaction aspects and research topics. These characteristics were analysed and compared to earlier systematic reviews in this topic. To accommodate the indoor-related themes, environmental aspects (size) and the motivation for using an indoor environment were also obtained from the relevant articles analysed. This way, the paper tries to provide a basis for further research in using indoor environments in virtual reality.

ABSTRAITE

Les environnements intérieurs virtuels offrent une combinaison unique de cartographie intérieure, de réalité virtuelle et de déplacement virtuel. Pourtant jusqu'à présent, la composante intérieure de ces environnements semble négligée même si cela peut avoir un impact sur la conduite du déplacement des utilisateurs ainsi que sur leur comportement spatial. Pour avoir une idée sur l'état de la recherche, une revue systématique d'articles évalués par des pairs, principalement issus de la base de données Scopus, a été réalisée sans cet article, qui a pour objectif de se faire une idée générale sur l'intérêt des recherches sur le déplacement virtuel et de comprendre quels types de recherche ont été menés sur l'environnement intérieur. Un intérêt particulier a été porté sur les types de techniques de déplacement, les interactions et les sujets de recherche. Ces caractéristiques sont analysées et comparées à des états de l'art antérieurs. Pour tenir compte des thèmes liés à l'intérieur, l'aspect environnementale (la taille) et la motivation pour utiliser un environnement intérieur ont également été obtenus à partir d'articles pertinents analysés. Ainsi, l'article essaye de fournir une base pour des recherches à venir sur l'utilisation d'environnements intérieurs en réalité virtuelle.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Correction Statement

This article has been corrected with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.

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Funding

This research was supported by Masaryk University, grant number MUNI/A/1323/2022.

Notes on contributors

Pavel Pospíšil

Pavel Pospíšil is a doctoral student at the Department of Geography, Masaryk University in Brno. In his doctoral work he focus on research of virtual enviroments and their impact on spatial cognition of users. Apart from virtual and augmented reality, he is interested in GIS software development and spatial analysis.

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