CakeVR: A social virtual reality (VR) tool for co-designing cakes

Mei, Yanni; Li, Jie; de Ridder, Huib; César Garcia, Pablo Santiago

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445503

Y. Mei (Yanni), J. Li (Jie), H. de Ridder (Huib) and P.S. César Garcia (Pablo Santiago)

2021-05-07

CakeVR: A social virtual reality (VR) tool for co-designing cakes

Presented at the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (May 2021), Online, Yokohama, Japan

Cake customization services allow clients to collaboratively personalize cakes with pastry chefs. However, remote (e.g., email) and in-person co-design sessions are prone to miscommunication, due to natural restrictions in visualizing cake size, decoration, and celebration context. This paper presents the design, implementation, and expert evaluation of a social VR application (CakeVR) that allows a client to remotely co-design cakes with a pastry chef, through real-time realistic 3D visualizations. Drawing on expert semi-structured interviews (4 clients, 5 pastry chefs), we distill and incorporate 8 design requirements into our CakeVR prototype. We evaluate CakeVR with 10 experts (6 clients, 4 pastry chefs) using cognitive walkthroughs, and fnd that it supports ideation and decision making through intuitive size manipulation, color/favor selection, decoration design, and custom celebration theme fitting. Our fndings provide recommendations for enabling co-design in social VR and highlight CakeVR’s potential to transform product design communication through remote interactive and immersive co-design.

Additional Metadata
Keywords	Social virtual reality, Co-design, Cake design, Remote collaboration
Persistent URL	doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445503
Project	VRTogether - An end-to-end system for the production and delivery of photorealistic social immersive virtual reality experiences
Conference	CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Grant	This work was funded by the European Commission 7th Framework Programme; grant id h2020/762111 - VRTogether - An end-to-end system for the production and delivery of photorealistic social immersive virtual reality experiences (VRTogether)
Organisation	Distributed and Interactive Systems
Citation APA Style AAA Style APA Style Cell Style Chicago Style Harvard Style IEEE Style MLA Style Nature Style Vancouver Style American-Institute-of-Physics Style Council-of-Science-Editors Style BibTex Format Endnote Format RIS Format CSL Format DOIs only Format	Mei, Y., Li, J., de Ridder, H., & César Garcia, P. S. (2021). CakeVR: A social virtual reality (VR) tool for co-designing cakes. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–14). doi:10.1145/3411764.3445503