Paper Info
Title
It's All Around You: Exploring 360° Video Viewing Experiences on Mobile Devices.
Abstract
360° videos are a new kind of medium that gives the viewers a sense of real immersion as they glimpse the action from all angles and directions. Naturally, professional and amateur film-makers are actively adopting this new medium for transformative storytelling. Despite this phenomenal progress in 360° video creation, current understanding on users' viewing experience of these videos is limited. In this paper, we present the first comparative study on the user experience with 360° videos on mobile devices using different interaction techniques. We observed 18 participants' interaction with six 360°videos with different viewport characteristics (static or moving) on a smartphone, a tablet and a head mounted display (HMD) respectively and measured how they interact with the content. We then conducted semi-structured interviews with the participants in which they explained their interaction with and viewing experience of 360° videos across three devices. Our findings show that 360° videos with moving viewports elicit higher engagement from the viewers, and offer superior viewing experience. However, these videos are cognitively demanding and require constant user attention. Our participants preferred the condition with dynamic peephole interaction on a smartphone for watching 360° videos due to the simplicity in exploration and familiarity with navigation controls. Many participants reported that the HMD offers the most immersive experience however it comes at the expense of higher cognitive burden, motion sickness and physical discomfort.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3123266.3123347
MM '17: ACM Multimedia Conference Mountain View California USA October, 2017
Keywords
Field
DocType
360 degrees video, Head Mounted Displays (HMDs), Mobile Devices, Video Consumption, User Experience
Computer vision,Storytelling,User experience design,Transformative learning,Viewport,Computer science,Amateur,Optical head-mounted display,Mobile device,Artificial intelligence,Cognition,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-4906-2
3
0.41
References 
Authors
19
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marc Van den Broeck130.41
Fahim Kawsar290980.24
Johannes Schöning3114587.96