Strangers and friends in caves

Steed, Anthony; Spante, Maria; Heldal, Ilona; Axelsson, Ann-Sofie; Schroeder, Ralph

doi:10.1145/641480.641492

Cited by 21 publications

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“…Previous studies of immersive CVEs have tended to look at laboratory settings over short periods of time. An exception is Steed et al [36] who studied the way dyadic groups of strangers and friends interacted and collaborated with one another using an immersive virtual reality CAVE. Participants who interacted with friends for several hours quickly establishing methods to perform the group tasks and engaged in small talk unrelated to the task.…”

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A longitudinal study of small group interaction in social virtual reality

Moustafa

Steed

2018

Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

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Now that high-end consumer phones can support immersive virtual reality, we ask whether social virtual reality is a promising medium for supporting distributed groups of users. We undertook an exploratory in-the-wild study using Samsung Gear VR headsets to see how existing social groups that had become geographically dispersed could use VR for collaborative activities. The study showed a strong propensity for users to feel present and engaged with group members. Users were able to bring group behaviors into the virtual world. To overcome some technical limitations, they had to create novel forms of interaction. Overall, the study found that users experience a range of emotional states in VR that are broadly similar to those that they would experience face-to-face in the same groups. The study highlights the transferability of existing social group dynamics in VR interactions but suggests that more work would need to be done on avatar representations to support some intimate conversations. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Virtual reality; Computer supported cooperative work;

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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A longitudinal study of small group interaction in social virtual reality

Moustafa

Steed

2018

Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

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“…To further assess the feasibility of IVR for remote collaboration, future studies should also include various aspects that relate to comfort and satisfaction of participants during the group interaction. 56 Moreover, there is a general need for more investigations of long-term social interactions, 57 , 58 not only in experimental but also in applied contexts. In fact, stronger and more evenly distributed connections between students in an undergraduate semester course were recently found when using a multi-user collaborative environment in desktop VR compared with an active control group.…”

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Group Decision-Making in Multi-User Immersive Virtual Reality

Moser

Chiquet

Strahm

et al. 2020

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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Head-mounted displays enable social interactions in immersive virtual environments. However, it is yet unclear whether the technology is also suitable for collaborative work between remote group members. Previous research comparing group performance in nonimmersive computer-mediated communication and face-to-face (FtF) interaction yielded inconsistent results. For this reason, we set out to compare multiuser immersive virtual reality (IVR), video conferencing (VC), and FtF interaction in a group decision task. Furthermore, we examined whether the conditions differed with respect to cognitive load and social presence. Using the hidden profile paradigm, we tested 174 participants in a fictional personnel selection case. Discussion quality in IVR did not differ from VC and FtF interaction. All conditions showed the typical bias for discussing information that was provided for all participants (i.e., shared information) compared with information that was only disclosed to individual participants (i.e., unshared information). Furthermore, we found that IVR groups showed the same probability of solving the task correctly. Social presence in IVR was reduced compared with FtF interaction; however, we found no differences in cognitive load. In sum, our results imply that IVR can effectuate efficient group behavior in a modern working environment that is characterized by a growing demand for remote collaboration.

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