How can one share a user's activity during VR synchronous augmentative cooperation?
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2023
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Rinnert, T.
Walsh, J.
Fleury, C.
Coppin, G.
Duval, T.
Thomas, B.H.
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Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2023; 7(2, article no. 20):1-14
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Collaborative virtual environments allow people to work together while being distant. At the same time, empathic computing aims to create a deeper shared understanding between people. In this paper, we investigate how to improve the perception of distant collaborative activities in a virtual environment by sharing users’ activity. We first propose several visualization techniques for sharing the activity of multiple users. We selected one of these techniques for a pilot study and evaluated its benefits in a controlled experiment using a virtual reality adaptation of the NASA MATB-II (Multi-Attribute Task Battery). Results show (1) that instantaneous indicators of users’ activity are preferred to indicators that continuously display the progress of a task, and (2) that participants are more confident in their ability to detect users needing help when using activity indicators.
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Data source: data, https://github.com/ThomasRinnert/MATB-II_CollabVR
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