Faculty
Kamarin Merritt
Instructor
Design & Innovation Management

Kamarin Merritt

kamarin.merritt@oregonstate.edu

Faculty
Kamarin Merritt
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Publications

Conference
DSGN - DIM

“From Focal to Scattered: Designing Culturally Adaptive VR for Chinese Architectural Painting”

Traditional Chinese architectural painting (jiehua), utilizes multi-perspective spatial composition and deliberate blankness (liubai) to create dynamic, interpretive visual experiences. These spatial and aesthetic conventions can pose cognitive challenges for non-Chinese viewers, particularly those familiar with Western single-point perspectives. Study 1 investigates these perceptual barriers through sketch-based interviews. Building on these insights, Study 2 presents an early-stage Virtual Reality (VR) prototype featuring perspective toggling and contextual annotations. Preliminary feedback suggests that these features enhance both spatial comprehension and immersive engagement. Future research will expand user testing to museum environments and broader cross-cultural contexts.


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Yuting Cheng, Shichao Zhao, Jiashu Yang and Kamarin Merritt "From Focal to Scattered: Designing Culturally Adaptive VR for Chinese Architectural Painting" Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2025

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