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Evaluating user behavior in virtual reality environments is a challenging task, requiring leading with spatial user freedom and with non-conventional visualization and interaction devices. By gathering and analyzing user movements and interactions, researchers and even game designers can notice important behavioral patterns and correlations. This paper aims to present an automatic motion and interaction tracking tool for virtual reality environments that allows researchers and game developers to move from the pure observational paradigm, such as video recording and questionnaires, to one that considers quantitative data. After gathering users’ data, the tool automatically generates charts to assist the analysis process and also allows the replaying of all user behavior executed in the application. A case study case is shown in which a user navigates and interacts in a virtual reality city performing instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). Using the tool presented here, we conclude that tracking user behavior automatically in a virtual reality environment is possible. To facilitate the software development process, we have developed a Unity Asset, allowing developers to use the tool easily by importing our asset into their projects.

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    We use QuickChart (https://quickchart.io/) service to generate chart images on-the-fly. Charts are rendered by Chart.js on web browsers.

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    https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/urban/city-package-10722.

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Acknowledgments

This project has been partially supported by Huawei do Brasil Telecomunicações Ltda (Fundunesp Process # 3123/2020).

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  1. Rectory, Federal University of São Paulo (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Marcelo de Paiva Guimarães

  2. Computer Science Master Program (Unifaccamp), Campo Limpo, Paulista, Brazil

    Marcelo de Paiva Guimarães

  3. Computer Science, Federal University of São João del Rei (UFSJ), São João del Rei, Brazil

    Diego Roberto Colombo Dias, Leonardo Chaves Dutra da Rocha & Elvis Hernandes Ribeiro

  4. São Paulo State University (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Rogério Luiz Iope & José Remo Brega

  5. Computer Science Department, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Bauru, Brazil

    Rogério Luiz Iope & José Remo Brega

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de Paiva Guimarães, M., Dias, D.R.C., da Rocha, L.C.D., Ribeiro, E.H., Iope, R.L., Brega, J.R. (2021). Motion and Interaction Tracking Tool for Virtual Reality Environments. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12958. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87016-4_44

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