Human interactions and personal space in collaborative virtual environments

Nassiri, Nasser; Powell, Norman; Moore, David

doi:10.1007/s10055-010-0169-3

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“…Studies in virtual environments were also exploring proximity behaviour according to gender but further variation in the distance of different dyads was reported. Study in a non-immersive collaborative environment reported that an invading male in female personal space did not result in the largest distance as previously found [42]. In immersive VR experiments using the CAVE system, users were directly approached by a virtual character [25,26].…”

Section: Gender Dyads and Proximitymentioning

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The Effect of Gender and Attractiveness of Motion on Proximity in Virtual Reality

Zibrek

Niay

Olivier

et al. 2020

ACM Trans. Appl. Percept.

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Section: Gender Dyads and Proximitymentioning

confidence: 83%

The Effect of Gender and Attractiveness of Motion on Proximity in Virtual Reality

Zibrek

Niay

Olivier

et al. 2020

ACM Trans. Appl. Percept.

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“…Whilst single-person VEs may focus on creating a detailed (visual) simulation, the design of SVEs typically prioritises enabling collaboration between users (Nassiri, Powell & Moore, 2010). By enabling multiple people to communicate and interact with each other and providing a natural medium for three-dimensional CSCW (Billinghurst et al, 2000), SVEs are considered emerging tools for a variety of purposes, including…”

Section: Shared Virtual Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing spaces to support collaborative creativity in shared virtual environments

Men

Bryan-Kinns

Bryce

2019

PeerJ Computer Science

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Shared virtual environments (SVEs) have been researched extensively within the fields of education, entertainment, work, and training, yet there has been limited research on the creative and collaborative aspects of interactivity in SVEs. The important role that creativity and collaboration play in human society raises the question of the way that virtual working spaces might be designed to support collaborative creativity in SVEs. In this paper, we outline an SVE named LeMo, which allows two people to collaboratively create a short loop of music together. Then we present a study of LeMo, in which 52 users composed music in pairs using four different virtual working space configurations. Key findings indicated by results include: (i) Providing personal space is an effective way to support collaborative creativity in SVEs, (ii) personal spaces with a fluid light-weight boundary could provide enough support, worked better and was preferable to ones with rigid boundaries and (iii) a configuration that provides a movable personal space was preferred to one that provided no mobility. Following these findings, five corresponding design implications for shared virtual environments focusing on supporting collaborative creativity are given and conclusions are made.

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“…For example, Han et al (2015) found that feelings of privacy and of others’ responsiveness promoted a sense of social presence among Twitter users, which in turn promoted the feeling of gratification of social connection with others. In other virtual environments researchers have found support for the existence of personal space between virtual avatars (Nassiri et al, 2010) and for participants immersed in virtual reality (Iachini et al, 2016). In both latter studies, participants maintained their distance to a virtual person, similar to real life.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Seat Choice in a Crowded Café: Effects of Eye Contact, Distance, and Anchoring

Staats

Groot

2019

Front. Psychol.

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According to theories of interpersonal distance people choose to position themselves in relation to nearby others in a way that optimizes intimacy and privacy. In two studies we investigated the influence of intimacy and privacy on seating behavior in a café (coffee house) setting. In Study 1 ( N = 71) we manipulated two aspects of intimacy (eye contact and distance to others), and one aspect of privacy (architectural anchoring) in separate scenario’s and registered participants’ seat choice on floor plans of the three hypothetical cafés. We found that more often participants chose a seat that was at a larger distance to other café-goers. Study 2 ( N = 121) replicated the design of the first study, but included affective and cognitive appraisal measures concerning both available seats in each scenario. This time we found that participants more often chose low-eye contact and anchored seats. Choices in line with hypotheses as well as those that were against hypotheses co-occurred with strong beliefs about the pleasure and arousal that each choice might provide and related to the expectations of interaction with others present. Results qualify expectations about protection and violation of intimacy and privacy, at least for café settings.

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Human interactions and personal space in collaborative virtual environments

Cited by 21 publications

References 29 publications

The Effect of Gender and Attractiveness of Motion on Proximity in Virtual Reality

The Effect of Gender and Attractiveness of Motion on Proximity in Virtual Reality

Designing spaces to support collaborative creativity in shared virtual environments

Seat Choice in a Crowded Café: Effects of Eye Contact, Distance, and Anchoring

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