Ernst Kruijff

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Professor

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http://home.inf.h-brs.de/~ekruij2m/

Affiliations:

Faculty of Computer Science & Institute for Visual Computing, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Biography

Projects

VR Locomotion Interfaces Survey: How to Move in VR?

VR Locomotion Interfaces Survey: How to Move in VR?

There are a multitude of different VR locomotion interfaces out there, all with their own pros and cons. In fact, far too many to all investigate in one behavioural study - so let's ask diverse VR experts for their opinion... Interested in supporting research on VR locomotion interfaces and helping the VR community better understand the pros and cons of different interfaces? We created a surve...

By bernhard riecke, daniel zielasko, ivan aguilar & ernst kruijff Read more
FaceHaptics: Robot Arm based Versatile Facial Haptics for Immersive Environments

FaceHaptics: Robot Arm based Versatile Facial Haptics for Immersive Environments

Beyond audiovisual cues in VR: Using an HMD-mounted robot arm for versatile facial haptics Abstract: FaceHaptics is a novel haptic display based on a robot arm attached to a head-mounted virtual reality display. It provides localized, multi-directional and movable haptic cues in the form of wind, warmth, moving and single-point touch events and water spray to dedicated parts of the face ...

By ernst kruijff, bernhard riecke, Alexander Wilberz, Dominik Leschtschow, Christina Trepkowksi & Jens Maiero Read more
Embodied & Intuitive Flying for VR, Gaming, and TeleOperation

Embodied & Intuitive Flying for VR, Gaming, and TeleOperation

Flying has been a dream for mankind for millenia - but flying interfaces for VR, gaming, and teleoperation (e.g., drones) typically rely on cumbersome double-joystick/gamepads and do not allow for intuitive and embodied flying experiences. Here, we develop low-cost embodied flying interfaces that adapt leaning-based motion cueing paradigms thus freeing up hands for additional tasks beyond just na...

By bernhard riecke, abraham hashemian, ashu adhikari, ivan aguilar, noah miller, alexander bretin, matin lotfaliei & ernst kruijff, Read more
NaviBoard: Efficiently Navigating Virtual Environments

NaviBoard: Efficiently Navigating Virtual Environments

Here we propose a novel and cost-effective setup of a leaning-based interface ("NaviBoard") that allows people to efficiently navigate virtual environments - with performance levels matching the gold standard of free-space walking, without any increase in motion sickness Abstract Walking has always been the most common locomotion mode for humans in the real world. As a result, it has also been co...

By thinh nguyen vo, bernhard riecke, wolfgang stuerzlinger, duc minh pham, ernst kruijff, noah miller & ashu adhikari Read more
3D User Interfaces Course

3D User Interfaces Course

Siggraph 2018: 3D User Interfaces for Virtual Reality and Games: 3D Selection, Manipulation, and Spatial Navigation 3-hour Course Presented at Siggraph 2018 In this course, we will take a detailed look at different topics in the field of 3D user interfaces (3DUIs) for Virtual Reality and Gaming. With the advent of Augmented and Virtual Reality in numerous application areas, the need and interest...

By bernhard riecke, joe laviola & ernst kruijff Read more
Navigation Interface Tutorial

Navigation Interface Tutorial

Navigation Interfaces for Virtual Reality and Gaming: Theory and Practice First version held at IEEE VR 2017, Sunday, March 19, 1:30pm - 5:00pm, updated variants of the tutorial will be presented at ACM Chi 2018 (slides) and IEEE VR 2018. At The Spatial Cognition 2018 conference we will present a new tutorial on Spatial Navigation Interfaces for Immersive Environments focusing more on the...

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Lean and Elegant Motion Cueing in VR

Lean and Elegant Motion Cueing in VR

How do we best design locomotion interfaces for VR that provide "enough" physical motion cues (vestibular/proprioceptive) while still being effective, affordable, compact, and safe? Despite amazing progress in computer graphics and VR displays, most affordable and room-sized VR locomotion interfaces provide only little physical motion cues (e.g., vestibular & proprioceptive cues). To provide...

By bernhard riecke, ernst kruijff, daniel feuereissen, alex kitson, timofey grechkin, markus von der heyde, jake freiberg, abraham hashemian, thinh nguyen vo & katerina stepanova Read more

Publications

Kruijff, E., & Riecke, B. E. (2017). Navigation Interfaces for Virtual Reality and Gaming: Theory and Practice. Course, 433–434. https://doi.org/10.1109/VR.2017.7892362
Kruijff, E., & Riecke, B. E. (2018). Navigation Interfaces for Virtual Reality and Gaming: Theory and Practice. CHI ’18 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 4 pages (half-day course). https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3170643
Kruijff, E., & Riecke, B. E. (2018). Navigation Interfaces for Virtual Reality and Gaming: Theory and Practice. 2 pages (half-day course).
Riecke, B. E., & Kruijff, E. (2018). Spatial Navigation Interfaces for Immersive Environments. 3 pages (half-day tutorial).
Riecke, B. E., LaViola, J. J., Jr., & Kruijff, E. (2018). 3D User Interfaces for Virtual Reality and Games: 3D Selection, Manipulation, and Spatial Navigation. ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Courses, 13:1–13:94. https://doi.org/10.1145/3214834.3214869
Nguyen-Vo, T., Riecke, B. E., Stuerzlinger, W., Pham, D.-M., & Kruijff, E. (2018). Do We Need Actual Walking in VR? Leaning with Actual Rotation Might Suffice for Efficient Locomotion [Poster]. Spatial Cognition 2018.
Kitson, A., Hashemian, A. M., Stepanova, E. R., Kruijff, E., & Riecke, B. E. (2017). Comparing Leaning-Based Motion Cueing Interfaces for Virtual Reality Locomotion. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 3DUI, 73–82. https://doi.org/10.1109/3DUI.2017.7893320
Nguyen-Vo, T., Riecke, B. E., Stuerzlinger, W., Pham, D.-M., Kruijff, E., & Riecke. (2020). NaviBoard and NaviChair: Limited Translation Combined with Full Rotation for Efficient Virtual Locomotion [Talk]. IEEE Virtual Reality 2020, Atlanta, GA, USA. https://youtu.be/JCYL2qVFO6M
Kruijff, E., Riecke, B. E., Trepkowski, C., & Kitson. (2015). Upper Body Leaning can affect Forward Self-Motion Perception in Virtual Environments. 103–112. https://doi.org/10.1145/2788940.2788943
Kruijff, E., Marquardt, A., Trepkowski, C., Lindemann, R., Hinkenjann, A., Maiero, J., & Riecke, B. E. (2016). On Your Feet! Enhancing Self-Motion Perception in Leaning-Based Interfaces through Multisensory Stimuli. Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI ’16), 149–158. https://doi.org/10.1145/2983310.2985759
Wilberz, A., Leschtschow, D., Trepkowski, C., Maiero, J., Kruijff, E., & Riecke, B. E. (2020). FaceHaptics: Robot Arm based Versatile Facial Haptics for Immersive Environments. CHI ’20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376481
Riecke, B. E., Trepkowski, C., & Kruijff, E. (2016). “Human Joystick”: Enhancing Self-Motion Perception (Linear Vection) by using Upper Body Leaning for Gaming and Virtual Reality. ISpaceLab Technical Report, 2016(1), 1–12. http://ispace.iat.sfu.ca/publications/
Jones, B., Maiero, J., Mogharrab, A., Aguliar, I. A., Adhikari, A., Riecke, B. E., Kruijff, E., Neustaedter, C., & Lindeman, R. W. (2020). FeetBack: Augmenting Robotic Telepresence with Haptic Feedback on the Feet. Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 194–203. https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3418820
Nguyen-Vo, T., Riecke, B. E., Stuerzlinger, W., Pham, D.-M., & Kruijff, E. (2019). NaviBoard and NaviChair: Limited Translation Combined with Full Rotation for Efficient Virtual Locomotion. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 27(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2019.2935730
Batmaz, A. U., Maiero, J., Kruijff, E., Riecke, B. E., Neustaedter, C., & Stuerzlinger, W. (2020). How automatic speed control based on distance affects user behaviours in telepresence robot navigation within dense conference-like environments. PLOS ONE, 15(11), e0242078. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242078
Hashemian, A., Lotfaliei, M., Adhikari, A., Kruijff, E., & Riecke, B. E. (2020). HeadJoystick: Improving Flying in VR using a Novel Leaning-Based Interface. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2020.3025084