Research Repository for HiveFive

This is the research repository for the CHI 2020 Paper: "HiveFive: Immersion Preserving Attention Guidance in Virtual Reality" This repository contains the assets / prefabs for rebuilding our biological and non-biological swarms.

Daniel Lange, Tim Claudius Stratmann, Uwe Gruenefeld, and Susanne Boll. 2020. HiveFive: Immersion Preserving Attention Guidance in Virtual Reality. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376803

How to use

1. Import the project
2. Launch the scene "HiveFive"
3. The scene has no cameras, so switch back to the scene view
4. If the swarms are not visible, double click on "BiologicalSwarm" or "NonBiologicalSwarm"
5. Use the two SwarmManagers to change parameters
6. To move the swarms you have to change the positions of the SwarmManagers

Data for the biological swarm

For our biological swarm, we use an excerpt of Ob4.txt from the following data source: Sinhuber, M. et al. Figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7336193.v2 (2018)

The data was published as part of the following publication: Sinhuber, M. et al. The Subnational Human Development Database. Sci. Data. 6:190036 https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2019.36 (2019).

To use other data, the text file "BiologicalSwarmTimeSeries.txt" in the root directory must be modified accordingly.