Do You Really Need to Know Where “That” Is? Enhancing Support for Referencing in Collaborative Mixed Reality Environments

Johnson, Janet; Gasques, Danilo; Sharkey, Thomas J.; Schmitz, Evan; Weibel, Nadir

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445246

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“…Only a few studies exist in this space. Johnson et al [31] present an experiment where a tablet participant, given an abstract scene representation, can assist a AR HMD participant during locate tasks using deixisfinding that a list view out-performed a spatial layout. Schroeder et al [46], in a study involving desktop and CAVE users working together, find that the display and input technology used by collaborators have a significant impact on leadership and tasking.…”

Section: Cross-platform Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, providing group awareness on heterogeneous devices is critical for crossvirtuality analytics [15], such as collaborating across desktop and VR platforms. As discussed in Section 2, providing group awareness for collaborative visualization to facilitate common ground is not a new idea but draws from many existing systems that provide group awareness, such as map overviews [31], remote presence [32,42], and avatars [34,46]. Thus, while the concept is not original, we find our "eyes-and-shoes" moniker to be particularly apt: the "eye" part can represent the visual cues, widgets, and views that provide awareness, and the "shoes" part are interactions that the user performs to gain awareness.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Inspiration: where "that" is? [31], mixed-presence minimap [32], avatars [34], remote presence [42].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Through Their Eyes and In Their Shoes: Providing Group Awareness During Collaboration Across Virtual Reality and Desktop Platforms

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Dunne³

et al. 2023

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Many collaborative data analysis situations benefit from collaborators utilizing different platforms. However, maintaining group awareness between team members using diverging devices is difficult, not least because common ground diminishes. A person using head-mounted VR cannot physically see a user on a desktop computer even while co-located, and the desktop user cannot easily relate to the VR user’s 3D workspace. To address this, we propose the “eyes-and-shoes” principles for group awareness and abstract them into four levels of techniques. Furthermore, we evaluate these principles with a qualitative user study of 6 participant pairs synchronously collaborating across distributed desktop and VR head-mounted devices. In this study, we vary the group awareness techniques between participants and explore two visualization contexts within participants. The results of this study indicate that the more visual metaphors and views of participants diverge, the greater the level of group awareness is needed.

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Section: Cross-platform Collaborationmentioning

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Section: The Eyes-and-shoes Principlesmentioning

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Through Their Eyes and In Their Shoes: Providing Group Awareness During Collaboration Across Virtual Reality and Desktop Platforms

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Dunne³

et al. 2023

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“…Whereas some papers provided detailed information of their ethical approval, as well as the adaptations required [17], many did not mention the procedure. In some cases, researchers stated that guidelines were followed but did not give further details [45], others briefly mentioned acting based on human research protection protocols; however referring to standard principles such as informed consent [29].…”

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Socially Distanced: Have user evaluation methods for Immersive Technologies changed during the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Frutos-Pascual

et al. 2021

2021 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)

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Since the emergence of COVID-19 in late 2019, there has been a significant disturbance in human-to-human interaction that has changed the way we conduct user studies in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), especially for extended (augmented, mixed, and virtual) reality (XR). To uncover how XR research has adapted throughout the pandemic, this paper presents a review of user study methodology adaptations from a corpus of 951 papers. This corpus of papers covers CORE 2021 A* published conference submissions, from Q2 2020 through to Q1 2021 (IEEE ISMAR, ACM CHI, IEEE VR). The review highlights how methodologies were changed and reported; sparking discussions surrounding how methods should be conveyed and to what extent research should be contextualised, by drawing on external topical factors such as COVID-19, to maximise usefulness and perspective for future studies. We provide a set of initial guidelines based on our findings, posing key considerations for researchers when reporting on user studies during uncertain and unprecedented times.

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“…Only a few studies exist in this space. Johnson et al [96] present an experiment where a tablet participant, given an abstract scene representation, can assist a AR HMD participant during locate tasks using deixis-finding that a list view out-performed a spatial layout. Schroeder et al [185], in a study involving desktop and CAVE users working together, find that the display and input technology used by collaborators have a significant impact on leadership and tasking.…”

Section: Cross-platform Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The mediums, the masses, the methods: towards meeting the demands of immersive analytics

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Immersive analytics (IA) is a developing sub-domain within the larger fields of information visualization, humancomputer interaction, and extended reality (XR). The focus of IA is to leverage emerging display technologies, such as virtual and augmented reality (VR, AR), to enhance data analysis and information visualization -using their unique affordances for 3D visual encoding, spatial interaction and presentation, and gesture controls. These affordances grant the potential for IA to enhance visualization workflows and tasks beyond what is possible with a 2D display. IA is a young research area, and XR devices, standards, practices, and software are relatively new and rapidly evolving. As a result, IA presents many research opportunities, and IA researchers studying these questions face several challenges. Existing literature has covered several challenges for traditional data visualization on 2D displays. However, data visualizations and their design, methods, and techniques are inherently linked to the mediums used to present them. As a result, traditional methods do not fully translate or encompass the needs of IA and the new medium of XR devices-motivating the need for new domain-specific research.IA demands novel design knowledge for research methods, collaboration modalities, and visualization design. This demand ultimately stems from the XR medium IA seeks to leverage and its relationship with what it can display, how visualizations are designed, and how users utilize it. Meeting the demand for this design knowledge is constrained by the vast and nascent nature of the IA design space, the difficulty of conducting IA design studies, the challenges of remote and collaborative XR user studies, and the complications of disparate display technologies. The work presented in this dissertation seeks to meet these demands and overcome these constraints. I do this through research contributing review analysis of the IA design space, design study methodology, remote user study methodology, and cross-virtually analytics collaboration. These works contribute new domain-specific knowledge, replicated results of real-life studies in VR, qualitative analysis of cross-platform collaborative IA, and a systematic review and analysis of the state-of-the-art in IA research. Through these contributions, this dissertation works towards meeting the demands of IA, allowing future research to be conducted more effectively and efficiently.iii AcknowledgementsIt is difficult to know where to begin acknowledging and thanking the countless people who made this dissertation possible. It's harder still knowing that the following words alone can never convey my gratitude to all. This dissertation is dedicated to all of you. It is a testament to the fact that it takes a village to raise a researcher and that we really stand on the shoulders of giants. I consider myself deeply lucky and privileged to have even had the opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science in the first place. I am deeply grateful for my early academic advisors, ...

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Do You Really Need to Know Where “That” Is? Enhancing Support for Referencing in Collaborative Mixed Reality Environments

Cited by 12 publications

References 61 publications

Through Their Eyes and In Their Shoes: Providing Group Awareness During Collaboration Across Virtual Reality and Desktop Platforms

Through Their Eyes and In Their Shoes: Providing Group Awareness During Collaboration Across Virtual Reality and Desktop Platforms

Socially Distanced: Have user evaluation methods for Immersive Technologies changed during the COVID-19 pandemic?

The mediums, the masses, the methods: towards meeting the demands of immersive analytics

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