Interdisciplinary Collaboration Approaches on Undergraduate Virtual Reality Technology Projects

Nersesian, Eric; Vinnikov, Margarita; Ross-Nersesian, Jessica; Lee, Michael J.

doi:10.1109/isec49744.2020.9280580

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“…In this case, the individual has the alternative to appear in the VRE as an avatar, i.e., in a form of a virtual representation of the user. This allows collaboration inside the environment, i.e., the concept of having two or more students/trainees/users working and interacting, regardless of their physical location [30,31]. VRE, as a revolutionary technology, are meant to accommodate such a requirement.…”

Section: Vre As a Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Collaboration in Virtual Reality: Survey and Perspectives

Xanthidou

Aburumman

Ben-Abdallah

2023

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The application of Virtual Reality Environments (VRE) has been gaining momentum as a relatively new tool to assist with mitigating various difficulties including abstractness of concepts, lack of user engagement, perception of disconnection from other users. A VRE may offer both synchronous and asynchronous experiences, in addition to an immersive environment which promotes users’ engagement. Past research has shown that, in general, VRE do improve the experiences they try to enhance in many aspects of human activity. Terms like immersiveness and 3D representation of real life objects and environments are, as it appears, the two most obvious positive effects of Virtual Reality (VR) applications. However, despite these benefits it does not come without challenges. The main three concepts/challenges are the spatial design, the collaboration interaction between its members and the VRE, and the audio and video fidelity. Each of the three includes a number of other components that should be addressed for the total experience to be fine-tuned. These include mutual embodiment and shared perspectives, teleportation, gestural interaction, symmetric and asymmetric collaboration, physical and virtual co-location, inventory, and time and spatial synchronization. This paper comprises a survey of the literature, that identifies and explains the features introduced and the challenges involved with the VREs, and furthermore provides various interesting future research directions.

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Section: Vre As a Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, in both symmetric (egocentric) and asymmetric (exocentric) collaboration, it is important to decide if it is better for the users of the VRE to belong to the same knowledge domain or, instead, if it is better to have an interdisciplinary team of users [31].…”

Section: Collaboration: Symmetric V Asymmetricmentioning

confidence: 99%