5G/6G-enabled metaverse technologies: Taxonomy, applications, and open security challenges with future research directions

M Adil, H Song, MK Khan, A Farouk, Z ** - Journal of Network and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Internet technology has proven to be a vital contributor to many cutting-edge innovations that
have given humans access to interact virtually with objects. Until now, numerous virtual …

Privacy-enhancing technology and everyday augmented reality: Understanding bystanders' varying needs for awareness and consent

J O'Hagan, P Saeghe, J Gugenheimer… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Fundamental to Augmented Reality (AR) headsets is their capacity to visually and aurally
sense the world around them, necessary to drive the positional tracking that makes …

The dark side of perceptual manipulations in virtual reality

WJ Tseng, E Bonnail, M McGill, M Khamis… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
“Virtual-Physical Perceptual Manipulations”(VPPMs) such as redirected walking and haptics
expand the user's capacity to interact with Virtual Reality (VR) beyond what would ordinarily …

Re-evaluating vr user awareness needs during bystander interactions

J O'Hagan, JR Williamson, F Mathis, M Khamis… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Virtual reality (VR) users are often around bystanders, ie people in the real world the VR
user may want to interact with. To facilitate bystander-VR user interactions, technology …

Implications of xr on privacy, security and behaviour: Insights from experts

M Abraham, P Saeghe, M Mcgill… - Nordic Human-Computer …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Extended-Reality (XR) devices are packed with sensors that allow tracking of users (eg,
behaviour, actions, eye-gaze) and their surroundings (eg, people, places, objects). As a …

Augmenting people, places & media: The societal harms posed by everyday augmented reality, and the case for perceptual human rights

J O'Hagan, J Gugenheimer, J Bonner, F Mathis… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Everyday Augmented Reality (AR) displays, with wearable, fashionable, all-day form factors,
may one day supplant our reliance on physical displays, heralding new capabilities in …

Big buddy: Exploring child reactions and parental perceptions towards a simulated embodied moderating system for social virtual reality

C Fiani, R Bretin, M McGill, M Khamis - Proceedings of the 22nd Annual …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Children experience new forms of harassment in Social Virtual Reality (VR), often
inaccessible to parental oversight. We aimed to understand how an artificial intelligent …

What you experience is what we collect: User experience based fine-grained permissions for everyday augmented reality

M Abraham, M McGill, M Khamis - … of the 2024 CHI Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Everyday Augmented Reality (AR) headsets pose significant privacy risks, potentially
allowing prolonged sensitive data collection of both users and bystanders (eg members of …

" Pikachu would electrocute people who are misbehaving": Expert, Guardian and Child Perspectives on Automated Embodied Moderators for Safeguarding Children …

C Fiani, R Bretin, SA Macdonald, M Khamis… - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Automated embodied moderation has the potential to create safer spaces for children in
social VR, providing a protective figure that takes action to mitigate harmful interactions …

Exploring attitudes towards increasing user awareness of reality from within virtual reality

J O'Hagan, M Khamis, M McGill… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The occlusive nature of VR headsets introduces significant barriers to a user's awareness of
their surrounding reality. While recent research has explored systems to facilitate a VR …