Studying the effect of symmetry in team structures on collaborative tasks in virtual reality

Agnès, Aurélien; Fleury, Sylvain; Vanukuru, Rishi; Richir, Simon

doi:10.1080/0144929x.2022.2127375

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“…Several studies have explored collaboration effectiveness in an IVR environment; the results indicate that IVR can support communication, understanding, and teamwork for medical training and education [46] and that it can be used to effectively assess social communication skills [47]. Other benefits include enhanced creativity compared with conventional tools and systems [48], empowered empathetic behavior [49], and improved knowledge acquisition [50].…”

Section: Collaboration In Ivrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating an Immersive Virtual Reality Game Space for Multiuser, Synchronous Co-Located Collaboration: Design Considerations and Influencing Factors

Feng,

Luo,

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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The last decade has witnessed the rapid development of immersive virtual reality (IVR) and its application in various contexts. However, its application in supporting real-time virtual collaboration has been quite rare due to technical barriers and the lack of validated design principles. To address this research gap, this study designed and developed an IVR space to enable multiuser synchronous co-located collaboration to complete a fantasy game. An evaluation study (N = 95) was conducted to explore its useful design considerations and the influencing factors for collaboration experience in the game. The IVR space was enabled by the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)-based inside-out tracking technique and was informed by four essential design considerations for promoting effective collaboration in IVR, namely, the role script, learning task, collaboration mechanism, and communication design. The study results revealed that students in general were satisfied with their collaboration experience in IVR, with social presence and collaboration competency as significant predictors of collective efficacy and social experience. Based on both quantitative and qualitative results, this study proposes four validated principles for designing effective IVR spaces to support synchronous co-located collaboration.

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Section: Collaboration In Ivrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating an Immersive Virtual Reality Game Space for Multiuser, Synchronous Co-Located Collaboration: Design Considerations and Influencing Factors

Feng,

Luo,

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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“…First, this review focused on analyzing the boosting effect of virtual avatars and contextual cues on creative performance. However, creativity in the VE is also influenced by communication modalities (Forens et al 2015), the combination of different platforms in creative activities (Agnès et al 2022), and user experience (Hong et al 2016;Fröhlich et al 2018). These factors are also worth discussing, as they influence creative performance in a positive or negative way.…”

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Boosting Creativity through Users’ Avatars and Contexts in Virtual Environments—A Systematic Review of Recent Research

2023

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As an artificial space extended from the physical environment, the virtual environment (VE) provides more possibilities for humans to work and be entertained with less physical restrictions. Benefiting from anonymity, one of the important features of VEs, users are able to receive visual stimuli that might differ from the physical environment through digital representations presented in VEs. Avatars and contextual cues in VEs can be considered as digital representations of users and contexts. In this article, we analyzed 21 articles that examined the creativity-boosting effects of different digital user and contextual representations. We summarized the main effects induced by these two digital representations, notably the effect induced by the self-similar avatar, Proteus effect, avatar with Social Identity Cues, priming effect induced by contextual representation, and embodied metaphorical effect. In addition, we examined the influence of immersion on creativity by comparing non-immersive and immersive VEs (i.e., desktop VE and headset VE, respectively). Last, we discussed the roles of embodiment and presence in the creativity in VEs, which were overlooked in the past research.

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Social virtual reality: systematic review of virtual teamwork with head-mounted displays

Dey,

Grabowski,

Frontzkowski

et al. 2024

JWL

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Purpose Social virtual reality (SVR) has emerged as a solution for the facilitation of remote and distributed teamwork, promising to overcome challenges faced in virtual 2D communication channels. The purpose of this study is to systematically review empirical articles dealing with the application of SVR with head-mounted displays (HMDs) in teams. Design/methodology/approach This study reviewed 40 empirical papers on teamwork that address the application of SVR using HMD in teams. The authors present results from the extracted data and identify themes that indicate the current state of research in this field. Findings Based on data obtained from the journal articles, the authors identified three themes underlying current research. They are features and applications of SVR technology, collaboration dynamics and team performance in SVR and educational and professional training and learning. The results show that SVR enhances team collaboration and collaborative learning. Practical implications SVR can aid in improving teamwork and team outcomes. In its current stage, SVR is complementary to 2D technology and not likely to replace traditional tools. Findings suggest that the technology is promising for collaboration and learning in organisations, especially in collaborative design tasks and simulations. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is one of the first studies to look at research emerging from the nascent area of SVR and summarise the current state of research. This study provides managerial implications and identifies future research areas for SVR in teamwork and learning.

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Studying the effect of symmetry in team structures on collaborative tasks in virtual reality

Cited by 4 publications

References 45 publications

Creating an Immersive Virtual Reality Game Space for Multiuser, Synchronous Co-Located Collaboration: Design Considerations and Influencing Factors

Creating an Immersive Virtual Reality Game Space for Multiuser, Synchronous Co-Located Collaboration: Design Considerations and Influencing Factors

Boosting Creativity through Users’ Avatars and Contexts in Virtual Environments—A Systematic Review of Recent Research

Social virtual reality: systematic review of virtual teamwork with head-mounted displays

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