Postnonclassical methodology and application of virtual reality technologies in social research

Menshikova, G.; Zinchenko, Yury P.; Kovalev, A.; Shaigerova, L.

doi:10.11621/pir.2015.0405

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“…Nowak et al [40] reported that the realism of the representation increases the social presence of the interacting person. According to the field of the psychology of perception, individuals inherently prefer anthropomorphic (human-like) representations during interactions, suggesting an innate preference for realism and lifelike interactivity (Zinchenko et al) [41]. This psychological insight reinforces our findings, highlighting the preference for point cloud-centric representations which, due to their increased verisimilitude, fostered a heightened sense of social telepresence, in contrast to their graphical counterparts.…”

Section: Streaming Remote Users With Point Clouds Improves Usability ...supporting

confidence: 82%

How Do Background and Remote User Representations Affect Social Telepresence in Remote Collaboration?: A Study with Portal Display, a Head Pose-Responsive Video Teleconferencing System

Kang,

Kim,

Lee

et al. 2023

Electronics

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This study presents Portal Display, a screen-based telepresence system that mediates the interaction between two distinct spaces, each using a single display system. The system synchronizes the users’ viewpoint with their head position and orientation to provide stereoscopic vision through this single monitor. This research evaluates the impact of graphically rendered and video-streamed backgrounds and remote user representations on social telepresence, usability, and concentration during conversations and collaborative tasks. Our results indicate that the type of background has a negligible impact on these metrics. However, point cloud streaming of remote users significantly improves social telepresence, usability, and concentration compared with graphical avatars. This study implies that Portal Display can operate more efficiently by substituting the background with graphical rendering and focusing on higher-resolution 3D point cloud streaming for narrower regions for remote user representations. This configuration may be especially advantageous for applications where the remote user’s background is not essential to the task, potentially enhancing social telepresence.

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Section: Streaming Remote Users With Point Clouds Improves Usability ...supporting

confidence: 82%

How Do Background and Remote User Representations Affect Social Telepresence in Remote Collaboration?: A Study with Portal Display, a Head Pose-Responsive Video Teleconferencing System

Kang,

Kim,

Lee

et al. 2023

Electronics

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“…They also make the inclusion of distant participants possible (Fox et al, 2009). Virtual reality (VR) has been used, for instance, for the study of (non-verbal) behaviour, social interaction skills, interpersonal persuasion, social inhibition, social anxiety, prosocial behaviour or prejudice and stereotyping (Fox et al, 2009;Zinchenko et al, 2015). Recently, the first studies have been presented that used machine learning for text analysis in social work.…”

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Digitalising qualitative social research? On the potential of digital features to enhance data collection in qualitative research: the example of a virtual reality serious game in a qualitative research project

Gredig

Bigoni

Bogdanović

et al. 2023

European Social Work Research

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Digital features like virtual reality have hardly been used in the framework of data collection in qualitative social work research. Virtual reality holds specific promise because it allows the immersion of participants in a situation and has the potential to strengthen the ecological validity of data. In this light, we examined the use of a virtual reality serious game in qualitative in-person interviews in the framework of a prevention-oriented HIV social research project. We designed and developed an immersive virtual reality serious game, and integrated it into 24 problem-centred in-person interviews. The integration was feasible, and the virtual reality serious game was well accepted. It prompted participants to elaborate their lived experiences more extensively and in depth. Participants subsequently recalled episodes they had not mentioned before, complemented their narratives and brought up new topics. The atmosphere became less formal, and participants were even more communicative. The use of virtual reality seems to have the potential to open up new perspectives, broaden epistemic possibilities and complement the qualitative methods used to investigate, in particular, verbal and non-verbal communication and interaction processes. From an ethical perspective, the use of virtual reality should be well reflected upon regarding possible after-effects for the participants.

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“…Currently, digital technologies, particularly virtual reality (VR) systems, are in wide use in the studies of social processes (Zinchenko et al, 2015;Fox et al, 2009;Blascovich et al, 2002). Nonverbal behavior is one of the psychological phenom-ena explored with the help of VR technologies, which were developed in order to study interaction with virtual partners.…”

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Gender Differences in Interactions with Avatars of Diverse Ethnic Appearances

Menshikova¹,

Tikhomandritskaya²,

Savel'eva³

et al. 2018

Psych. Rus.

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Background. Gender differences exist in almost every aspect of our lives. Individuals have an array of different social expectations with regard to behaviors, communication, appearance, attitudes, and social roles, but these expectations tend to be based on whether the individual is male or female. Currently, many social studies have been done with the help of virtual reality technologies. They have been effectively applied to the study of many social phenomena such as nonverbal communication, social skills training, social anxiety rehabilitation, etc. Recently considerable attention has been paid to issue of gender differences during social interaction with the virtual partners, avatars. However, the question of gender differences during interactions with avatars of diverse ethnic appearances has seldom been studied. Objective. The goal of this study was to investigate the gender peculiarities of interaction with avatars of different ethnic appearances. We used the CAVE virtual reality system to study gender differences in interpersonal distances which were maintained with avatars. Design. We designed four three-dimensional virtual scenes with avatars of four different ethnic appearances. They were avatars of Slavic, Asian, North Caucasian, and African appearance. All the avatars were male. The participants (who all identified as Russians) were immersed in virtual environments with the help of the CAVE virtual reality system. Their task was to approach the avatar, present herself/himself in any way they wanted, and give instructions for the work. During the task the interpersonal distances between the participants and the avatars were measured. After leaving the CAVE, the participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire assessing the Presence effect. Results. The results showed gender differences in how much interpersonal distance was maintained: women preferred to keep shorter interpersonal distances with their virtual partners than men did. Moreover, the results showed the impact of ethnic appearance on interpersonal distances. Women approached the avatars of their own ethnic group more closely and kept further away from the avatars of other ethnic groups. Unlike the women, the men stayed the same distance away from the avatars of different ethnic groups. Both gender groups kept equally far away from the avatar of African appearance. Gender differences were also revealed in the participants' estimates of the Presence effect.

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Postnonclassical methodology and application of virtual reality technologies in social research

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

How Do Background and Remote User Representations Affect Social Telepresence in Remote Collaboration?: A Study with Portal Display, a Head Pose-Responsive Video Teleconferencing System

How Do Background and Remote User Representations Affect Social Telepresence in Remote Collaboration?: A Study with Portal Display, a Head Pose-Responsive Video Teleconferencing System

Digitalising qualitative social research? On the potential of digital features to enhance data collection in qualitative research: the example of a virtual reality serious game in a qualitative research project

Gender Differences in Interactions with Avatars of Diverse Ethnic Appearances

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