Performance and User Experience Studies of HILLES: Home-based Immersive Lower Limb Exergame System

Yu Yen Chung, Thiru M. Annaswamy, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

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Abstract

Head-Mounted Devices (HMDs) have become popular for home-based immersive gaming. However, using lower limb motion in the immersive virtual environment is still restricted. This work introduces an RGB-D camera-based motion capture system alongside a standalone HMD for Home-based Immersive Lower Limbs Exergame Systems (HILLES) in a seated pose. With the advance of neural network models, camera-based 3D body tracking accuracy is increasing. Nevertheless, the high demand for computing resources on model inference may compromise the game engine's performance. Accordingly, HILLES applies a distributed architecture to leverage the resources effectively. The system performances, such as frames per second and latency, are compared with a centralized system. For an immersive exergame, a pet walking around could raise safety issues. Hence, we also showcase that the camera system can provide an additional safety feature by combining an object detection model. Besides, another challenge in games focusing on lower limb interactions is the safe reachability of different virtual objects from a seated pose. Accordingly, in the user study, a stomping game with two reachability enhancements, including leg extension and seated navigation, is implemented based on the HILLES to evaluate and explore the gaming experience. The result shows that the system motivates the leg exercise, and the added enhancements may adjust the game difficulty. However, the enhancements may also distract users from focusing on leg exertion. The derived insight could benefit the lower limb exergame design in the future.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMMSys 2023 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages62-73
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9798400701481
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 7 2023
Event14th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, MMSys 2023 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: Jun 7 2023Jun 10 2023

Publication series

NameMMSys 2023 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference

Conference

Conference14th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, MMSys 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period6/7/236/10/23

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Software

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