Subjective and Objective Analyses of Collaboration and Co-Presence in a Virtual Reality Remote Environment

Bayro, Allison; Ghasemi, Yalda; Jeong, Heejin

doi:10.1109/vrw55335.2022.00108

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“…First, immersive VR rehabilitation is more effective in restoring motor function than rehabilitation using conventional displays [15]. Second, because VR rehabilitation creates a stronger sense of the presence of others [16], involving other patients through the multiplayer mode in VR rehabilitation can significantly impact the continuation of rehabilitation. Finally, VR technology offers patients a time-compression effect that allows patients to complete tedious or painful treatments in a shorter perceived time [17], [18].…”

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Effects of Gamification and Communication in Virtual Reality Frozen Shoulder Rehabilitation for Enhanced Rehabilitation Continuity

2023

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The monotony of movements makes frozen shoulder rehabilitation an boring task for certain patients. This study posits that gamification and the presence of others can effectively address this issue. Accordingly, we developed a virtual reality (VR) application for frozen shoulder rehabilitation exercises and empirically examined the effects of gamification and the presence of others on rehabilitation duration. A user study on 32 subjects revealed that the integration of game elements into a VR rehabilitation program significantly prolonged the rehabilitation duration (p < 0.001, d = 0.983). Additionally, the rehabilitation duration was considerably longer when participants performed the rehabilitation program with others (p < 0.05, d = 0.455).

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Effects of Gamification and Communication in Virtual Reality Frozen Shoulder Rehabilitation for Enhanced Rehabilitation Continuity

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“…The applications of such devices are not limited to the gaming field. For example, Bayro et al [ 13 ] evaluated the use of VR head-mounted display-based and computer-based remote collaboration solutions. Wei et al [ 14 ] assessed the suitability of Google Glass in surgical settings.…”

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Social Media Users’ Perceptions of a Wearable Mixed Reality Headset During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

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Background Mixed reality (MR) devices provide real-time environments for physical-digital interactions across many domains. Owing to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, MR technologies have supported many new use cases in the health care industry, enabling social distancing practices to minimize the risk of contact and transmission. Despite their novelty and increasing popularity, public evaluations are sparse and often rely on social interactions among users, developers, researchers, and potential buyers. Objective The purpose of this study is to use aspect-based sentiment analysis to explore changes in sentiment during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as new use cases emerged in the health care industry; to characterize net insights for MR developers, researchers, and users; and to analyze the features of HoloLens 2 (Microsoft Corporation) that are helpful for certain fields and purposes. Methods To investigate the user sentiment, we collected 8492 tweets on a wearable MR headset, HoloLens 2, during the initial 10 months since its release in late 2019, coinciding with the onset of the pandemic. Human annotators rated the individual tweets as positive, negative, neutral, or inconclusive. Furthermore, by hiring an interannotator to ensure agreements between the annotators, we used various word vector representations to measure the impact of specific words on sentiment ratings. Following the sentiment classification for each tweet, we trained a model for sentiment analysis via supervised learning. Results The results of our sentiment analysis showed that the bag-of-words tokenizing method using a random forest supervised learning approach produced the highest accuracy of the test set at 81.29%. Furthermore, the results showed an apparent change in sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic period. During the onset of the pandemic, consumer goods were severely affected, which aligns with a drop in both positive and negative sentiment. Following this, there is a sudden spike in positive sentiment, hypothesized to be caused by the new use cases of the device in health care education and training. This pandemic also aligns with drastic changes in the increased number of practical insights for MR developers, researchers, and users and positive net sentiments toward the HoloLens 2 characteristics. Conclusions Our approach suggests a simple yet effective way to survey public opinion about new hardware devices quickly. The findings of this study contribute to a holistic understanding of public perception and acceptance of MR technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight several new implementations of HoloLens 2 in health care. We hope that these findings will inspire new use cases and technological features.

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“…eXtended Reality (XR)-based remote collaboration enhances the feeling of presence and coexistence and enables these experiences to be similar to reality (Bayro, Ghasemi, & Jeong, 2022;Matthews, See, & Day, 2021;Yang et al, 2022). Many studies used XR commercial platforms to develop educational, medical, and industrial systems.…”

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A Comparative Evaluation of XR-based Remote Collaboration Platforms: A Case Study

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Bayro

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Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Subjective and Objective Analyses of Collaboration and Co-Presence in a Virtual Reality Remote Environment

Cited by 11 publications

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Effects of Gamification and Communication in Virtual Reality Frozen Shoulder Rehabilitation for Enhanced Rehabilitation Continuity

Effects of Gamification and Communication in Virtual Reality Frozen Shoulder Rehabilitation for Enhanced Rehabilitation Continuity

Social Media Users’ Perceptions of a Wearable Mixed Reality Headset During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

A Comparative Evaluation of XR-based Remote Collaboration Platforms: A Case Study

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