@inproceedings{37377e741fef456d90e7044f0d7a9ab8,
title = "FootPorting: Exploring Foot-Based Teleportation Techniques for Seated Users in Confined Spaces",
abstract = "Teleportation is widely used in Virtual Reality (VR) applications, especially for enabling efficient navigation in large-scale virtual environments. Leveraging foot movements for teleportation frees the hands for parallel tasks and helps maintain spatial orientation, making it particularly suitable for seated and multitasking VR scenarios. This work explores feasible foot actions for teleportation in confined seating conditions, such as traveling on an airplane or train, where users' leg motion is feasible, but its range is constrained. Such scenarios are common but are underexplored. We propose seven metaphor-inspired teleportation techniques based on foot interactions and evaluate their effectiveness through a user study. The findings provide valuable insights for designing effective teleportation techniques in VR scenarios where users are seated in constrained spaces.",
keywords = "confined spaces, foot-based input, hands-free interaction, teleportation, Virtual reality",
author = "Tingjie Wan and Yunxin Xu and Yue Li and Nilufar Baghaei and Liang, \{Hai Ning\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 IEEE.; 24th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2025 ; Conference date: 08-10-2025 Through 12-10-2025",
year = "2025",
doi = "10.1109/ISMAR67309.2025.00129",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2025",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "1235--1245",
editor = "Ulrich Eck and Gun Lee and Alexander Plopski and Missie Smith and Qi Sun and Markus Tatzgern",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2025",
}