“The biggest benefit is that it provides a realistic experience without the need to get on a plane or even leave your home, office or bed. For example, medical students can use VR to experience a surgery or patient-provider interaction, … Read More
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eXtended Reality is NOT a Catchall Phrase
Kay M. Stanney
While others in the world are using “XR” as a catch-all term for AR, MR, and VR, we have discovered that one of the biggest barriers to widespread adoption of XR technologies… lack of good UX design… can be overcome by blending all three form factors into a new, highly engaging, and empowering UX paradigm. This approach combines cutting edge “ambient” user interface design principles and AI/ML adaptation logic, with the point-of-need support of AR, the immersive contextualization of VR, and the physical interaction afforded by MR to achieve a currently unparalleled immersive solution that provides the right training or operational support at the real-world point-of-need in the right form factor to accelerate training and support operations…
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How to Use Psychology to Empower the User
User Experience (UX) is an extensive interdisciplinary field that encompasses many aspects of design and engineering. When you hear the term “UX,” you may relate it only to applications and software, but it’s actually much bigger than that! The principles … Read More
Virtual Reality Is Sexist
The aim of this study was to assess what drives gender-based differences in the experience of cybersickness within virtual environments… As there are many individual factors that could contribute to gender differences, understanding the biggest drivers could help point to … Read More
The Psychometrics of Cybersickness in Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) is rapidly being adopted by industry leaders and militaries around the globe. With the Defense Health Agency pushing AR as a solution to the distributed learning problem, along with AR applications being explored within primary care and … Read More
Reformulation of a Research and Development Agenda
Immersive technologies, such as virtual and augmented reality, initially failed to live up to expectations, but have improved greatly, with many new head-worn displays and associated applications being released over the past few years. Unfortunately, ‘cybersickness’ remains as a common … Read More
Design Interactive Cybersickness Abstract wins IMSH 2021 Award
Design Interactive’s abstract on Cybersickness Symptom Profiles in Long Duration Immersive AR has been chosen as one of the IMSH 2021 Winning Abstracts. Selected out of 150 submissions, DI’s abstract will be awarded second place on January 19, 2021 by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. … Read More
Design Interactive Wins ECIT Best Paper Award at I/ITSEC 2020
Design Interactive (DI) was presented with the Best Paper Award by the Emerging Concepts and Technologies Committee during the virtual I/ITSEC 2020 conference. The ECIT subcommittee publishes papers that discuss emerging and innovative technologies, methodologies, or concepts associated with simulation, … Read More
Matthew Johnston invited to join Orlando Business Journal Leadership Trust
Leadership Trust is an Invitation-Only Community for Top Business Decision Makers in Orlando Orlando, FL — Matthew Johnston, Commercial Solutions Division Head of Design Interactive, Inc. has been invited to join Orlando Business Journal Leadership Trust, an exclusive community for … Read More