Towards Low-burden Responses to Open Questions in VR
This addresses the burden of qualitative data collection for VR researchers and participants, but it is incremental as it builds on existing VR surveying tools.
The paper tackles the problem of collecting open-ended qualitative feedback in VR user studies, which is currently neglected due to the tedious nature of text-entry in VR, and presents a comparative study of three text-entry methods to guide low-burden responses.
Subjective self-reports in VR user studies is a burdening and often tedious task for the participants. To minimize the disruption with the ongoing experience VR research has started to administer the surveying directly inside the virtual environments. However, due to the tedious nature of text-entry in VR, most VR surveying tools focus on closed questions with predetermined responses, while open questions with free-text responses remain unexplored. This neglects a crucial part of UX research. To provide guidance on suitable self-reporting methods for open questions in VR user studies, this position paper presents a comparative study with three text-entry methods in VR and outlines future directions towards low-burden qualitative responding.