IXCI is a toolkit targeted at HCI researchers that consists of a set of components that provide them with a (web-based) visual interface to control and monitor immersive applications. It aims to provide readily available functionality that supports researchers in the process of designing/prototyping a virtual scenario, testing and ultimately experiment execution.
The control panel interface acts as monitor/control panel for the researcher who can : keep track of the user position and gaze within the virtual environment; execute a set of ah-hoc functions concerning the experiment (through forms and buttons); manage configuration parameters to be applied in the VR application; and, display remote log messages via a terminal window.
Cite our work:
A Tool for Monitoring and Controlling Standalone Immersive HCI Experiments
@inproceedings{
rey2021tool,
title={A Tool for Monitoring and Controlling Standalone Immersive HCI Experiments},
author={Rey, Alejandro and Bellucci, Andrea and Diaz, Paloma and Aedo, Ignacio},
booktitle={The Adjunct Publication of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},
pages={20--22},
year={2021}
}
Monitoring position and user view (we're sending frames not too often by now)
Remote call example
Switching between scenes
- Making the Unity components available as a Unity package, it'll be out very soon (almost done)
- Integration with gRPC (for network infrastructure automation) to further make the system more flexible (We're testing it!)
- GUI to enable the creation of new remote control/monitoring commands (We're testing it!)
Available very soon!
Work in Progress
Json.NET 12.0.3 for Unity https://github.com/jilleJr/Newtonsoft.Json-for-Unity
Name: jilleJr URL: https://npm.cloudsmith.io/jillejr/newtonsoft-json-for-unity Scope(s): jillejr.newtonsoft.json-for-unity
Json.NET Converters of Unity types Version 1.4.0 - February 05, 2022
Work in progress