Spatial Orientation in Telepresence (C02)

• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology ; Production Automation and Assembly Technology
• Term: from 2020 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 416228727

The project studies continuous spatial updating with its critical role for spatial orientation in synthetic environments. Experimental tasks involve the encoding of locations, self-motion in virtual reality setups that induce strong presence (including industrial scenarios), and tests for the updating of egocentric location representations. Participants perform pointing and triangle completion tasks. The self-motion is either merely simulated translation or real combined with simulated self-motion, or real self-motion (re-directed walking). The experiments disentangle continuous and instantaneous spatial updating, and determine the contributions of visual and internal (idiothetic) cues to cue combination.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1410: Hybrid Societies: Humans Interacting with Embodied Technologies
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Chemnitz
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Georg Jahn; Dr.-Ing. Philipp Klimant