Grasset, R.Duenser, A.Billinghurst, Mark2009-04-272009-04-272008Grasset, R., Duenser, A., Billinghurst, M. (2008) Moving Between Contexts - A User Evaluation of a Transitional Interface. Yokohama, Japan: 18th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2008), 1-3 Dec 2008.http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2374Navigating between different virtual worlds, interface scales or task contexts has emerged as an interesting research area for Augmented and Virtual Reality interfaces. We have developed a transitional interface which allows users to smoothly move between exocentric Augmented Reality and egocentric Virtual Reality views. In this paper we report on the first user study to investigate performance, usability, presence and awareness issues with transitional interfaces. The results of this explorative study provide initial guidelines for future research and development of multicontext-navigation environments and raise interesting questions for future research.enConference Contributions - PublishedFields of Research::280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences::280100 Information Systems::280104 Computer-human interactionFields of Research::280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences::280200 Artificial Intelligence and Signal and Image Processing::280211 Virtual reality and related simulation