LoCoMoTe Dashboard: An Interactive Online Dashboard for the Standardised Categorisation of Natural Walking VR Experiments

This paper presents the ‘LoCoMoTe Dashboard’, a new interactive online application of the newly developed ‘Locomotion categorisation by Task, Technique, and Modality Framework’, referred to as the ‘LoCoMoTe Framework’. The LoCoMoTe Framework was developed as a dynamic community-driven resource to give coherence to the virtual reality (VR) locomotion literature by categorising VR-based ‘natural walking’ experiments, supporting open-science and data sharing where appropriate, but without an accompanying tool; the framework remains static. Therefore, the development of the LoCoMoTe Dashboard facilitates this by providing researchers with a tool to visualise and cross-filter categorised experiments and download the results as CSV files. Additionally, the LoCoMoTe Dashboard documents a procedure on how researchers can suggest edits and add new experiments. Thus, the LoCoMoTe Dashboard facilitates the purpose of the LoCoMoTe Framework, supporting the vision for a more collaborative, knowledge-sharing, and reproducible research community.