Digital Proxemics: Designing Social and Collaborative Interaction in Virtual Environments

Williamson, Julie R.; O’Hagan, Joseph; Guerra-Gómez, John Alexis; Williamson, John; César, Pablo; Shamma, David A.

doi:10.1145/3491102.3517594

Cited by 31 publications

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“…For flexible and realistic group dynamics, purposeful and configurable spatial audio with carefully chosen volume reduction parameters is required, as well as an option to hear everyone in a plenum. We observed similar behavior of our participants as in a study by Williamson et al (2022), where users seemed to move close together to hear each other best despite loud background conversations. As our participants proposed, allowing users to create a private sound bubble with visible boundaries to shield their group might be helpful.…”

Section: Lessons Learnedsupporting

confidence: 80%

Seeing the faces is so important—Experiences from online team meetings on commercial virtual reality platforms

Bonfert

Reinschluessel²,

Putze³

et al. 2023

Front. Virtual Real.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, online meetings became common for daily teamwork in the home office. To understand the opportunities and challenges of meeting in virtual reality (VR) compared to videoconferences, we conducted the weekly team meetings of our human-computer interaction research lab on five off-the-shelf online meeting platforms over 4 months. After each of the 12 meetings, we asked the participants (N = 32) to share their experiences, resulting in 200 completed online questionnaires. We evaluated the ratings of the overall meeting experience and conducted an exploratory factor analysis of the quantitative data to compare VR meetings and video calls in terms of meeting involvement and co-presence. In addition, a thematic analysis of the qualitative data revealed genuine insights covering five themes: spatial aspects, meeting atmosphere, expression of emotions, meeting productivity, and user needs. We reflect on our findings gained under authentic working conditions, derive lessons learned for running successful team meetings in VR supporting different kinds of meeting formats, and discuss the team’s long-term platform choice.

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Section: Lessons Learnedsupporting

confidence: 80%

Seeing the faces is so important—Experiences from online team meetings on commercial virtual reality platforms

Bonfert

Reinschluessel²,

Putze³

et al. 2023

Front. Virtual Real.

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“…For flexible and realistic group dynamics, purposeful and configurable spatial audio with carefully chosen volume reduction parameters is required, as well as an option to hear everyone in a plenum. We observed similar behavior of our participants as in a study by Williamson et al (2022), where users seemed to move close together to best hear each other despite audible background conversations. As proposed by our participants, it might be helpful to allow users to create a private sound bubble with visible boundaries to shield their own group.…”

Section: Spatial Aspectssupporting

confidence: 78%

“…We can assume that some of the observed social inadequacies originated from technical overload or accidents. For example, the sense of personal space is not transferred directly from in-person interactions to VEs and depends on various factors, such as using an HMD or a desktop PC (Williamson et al, 2022). A prior training and familiarization phase with the system McVeigh-Schultz et al (2018) is advisable.…”

Section: Meeting Atmospherementioning

confidence: 99%

"Seeing the Faces Is So Important" -- Experiences From Online Team Meetings on Commercial Virtual Reality Platforms

Bonfert¹,

Reinschluessel²,

Putze³

et al. 2022

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During the Covid-19 pandemic, online meetings became common for daily teamwork in the home office. To understand the opportunities and challenges of meeting in virtual reality (VR) compared to video conferences, we conducted the weekly team meetings of our human-computer interaction research lab on five off-the-shelf online meeting platforms over four months. After each of the 12 meetings, we asked the participants (N = 32) to share their experiences, resulting in 200 completed online questionnaires. We evaluated the ratings of the overall meeting experience and conducted an exploratory factor analysis of the quantitative data to compare VR meetings and video calls in terms of meeting involvement and co-presence. In addition, a thematic analysis of the qualitative data revealed genuine insights covering five themes: spatial aspects, meeting atmosphere, expression of emotions, meeting productivity, and user needs. We reflect on our findings gained under authentic working conditions, derive lessons learned for running successful team meetings in VR supporting different kinds of meeting formats, and discuss the team's long-term platform choice.

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“…Various contextual information has also been suggested to drive access control, taking into account the location and environment (e.g., "world-driven access control" [128]), existing social connections [156,158], social signals [96], and accessibility needs [158]. For accessibility in particular, there is evidence individuals "would support special permissions to be granted to speci c groups of persons when there is a justi ed reason to do so" [39], if "higher security assurances can be made by improving their control over how their information is shared" [10].…”

Section: Privacy-enhancing Technologies (Pets)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Privacy-Enhancing Technology and Everyday Augmented Reality

O’Hagan

Saeghe

Gugenheimer

et al. 2022

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.

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Fundamental to Augmented Reality (AR) headsets is their capacity to visually and aurally sense the world around them, necessary to drive the positional tracking that makes rendering 3D spatial content possible. This requisite sensing also opens the door for more advanced AR-driven activities, such as augmented perception, volumetric capture and biometric identification - activities with the potential to expose bystanders to significant privacy risks. Existing Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) often safeguard against these risks at a low level e.g., instituting camera access controls. However, we argue that such PETs are incompatible with the need for always-on sensing given AR headsets' intended everyday use. Through an online survey (N=102), we examine bystanders' awareness of, and concerns regarding, potentially privacy infringing AR activities; the extent to which bystanders' consent should be sought; and the level of granularity of information necessary to provide awareness of AR activities to bystanders. Our findings suggest that PETs should take into account the AR activity type, and relationship to bystanders, selectively facilitating awareness and consent. In this way, we can ensure bystanders feel their privacy is respected by everyday AR headsets, and avoid unnecessary rejection of these powerful devices by society.

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Digital Proxemics: Designing Social and Collaborative Interaction in Virtual Environments

Cited by 31 publications

References 33 publications

Seeing the faces is so important—Experiences from online team meetings on commercial virtual reality platforms

Seeing the faces is so important—Experiences from online team meetings on commercial virtual reality platforms

"Seeing the Faces Is So Important" -- Experiences From Online Team Meetings on Commercial Virtual Reality Platforms

Privacy-Enhancing Technology and Everyday Augmented Reality

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