The rise of shared virtual environments

Waters, Richard C.; Barrus, John

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“…However, the fundamental aspect of shared experience is the sensory communication that takes place between participants which enables them to display their actions and express their emotions to each other. To explore possible uses of SVEs for learning, entertainment and work, Waters, Barrus (1997) and their colleagues have developed 'Diamond Park': a virtual landscape park that accommodates both bicycling and social interactions. Macedonia and Noll (1997) discuss the possibilities of constructing a SVE for conducting scientific experiments globally with remotely located participants.…”

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An experimental study on the role of touch in shared virtual environments

Başdoğan

Ho²,

Srinivasan

et al. 2000

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Investigating virtual environments has become an increasingly interesting research topic for engineers, computer and cognitive scientists, and psychologists. Although there have been several recent studies focused on the development of multimodal virtual environments (VEs) to study human-machine interactions, less attention has been paid to human-human and human-machine interactions in shared virtual environments (SVEs), and to our knowledge, no attention paid at all to what extent the addition of haptic communication between people would contribute to the shared experience. We have developed a multimodal shared virtual environment and performed a set of experiments with human subjects to study the role of haptic feedback in collaborative tasks and whether haptic communication through force feedback can facilitate a sense of being and collaborating with a remote partner. The study concerns a scenario where two participants at remote sites must co-operate to perform a joint task in a SVE. The goals of the study are (1) to assess the impact of force feedback on task performance, (2) to better understand the role of haptic communication in human-human interactions, (3) to study the impact of touch on the subjective sense of collaborating with a human as reported by the participants based on what they could see and feel, and (4) to investigate if gender, personality, or emotional experiences of users can affect haptic communication in SVEs. The outcomes of this research can have a powerful impact on the development of next generation human-computer interfaces and network protocols that integrate touch and force feedback technology into the Internet, development of protocols and techniques for collaborative teleoperation such as hazardous material removal, space station repair, and remote surgery, and enhancement of virtual environments for performing collaborative tasks in shared virtual worlds on a daily basis such as co-operative teaching, training, planning and design, cybergames, and social gatherings. Our results suggest that haptic feedback significantly improves the task performance and contributes to the feeling of 'sense of togetherness' in SVEs. In addition, the results show that the experience of visual feedback only at first, and then subsequently visual plus haptic feedback elicits a better performance than presentation of visual plus haptic feedback first followed by visual feedback only.

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An experimental study on the role of touch in shared virtual environments

Başdoğan

Ho²,

Srinivasan

et al. 2000

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

350

192

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“…In the presence of concurrent events issued by different processes and nondeterministic propagation latency caused by underlying network traffic, messages that are causally related may not arrive at a process in the correct order. However, for many distributed applications (e.g., distributed simulation [6,19,20] and mobile computing [1]), the causal order delivery of messages must be enforced in order to maintain the correctness of the system.…”

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Causal Order Delivery in a Multicast Environment: An Improved Algorithm

Cai

Lee

Zhou

2002

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

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“…Most of the work focuses on analytical and descriptive aspects of identity in cyberspace (Turkle, 1995;Suller, 1996;Calvert, 2002). Building upon the technical infrastructure of distributed virtual environments, or multi-user virtual environments, on-line communities can enable new expressions of psychological and social life by providing software that supports conversations, collaborations and interactions (Waters & Barrus, 1997;Morningstar & Farmer, 1990;Kollock & Smith, 1998;Rheingold, 1993).…”

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The Role of New Technologies to Foster Positive Youth Development

Bers¹

2006

Applied Developmental Science

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This paper describes a developmental systems approach to applied developmental sciences (ADS) which provides a framework to design and evaluate technology-rich programs that promote positive development by emphasizing the strengths and assets of people, instead of focusing on diminishing or preventing risk-taking behaviors. Up to now, most of the psycho educational programs conceived within the ADS model have not focused on the role of new technologies in young people's lives. This absence is particularly striking given that, in today's world, new technologies play an important role in different areas of the lives of young people, such as education, entertainment, socialization and communication. This article presents the concept of Identity Construction Environments (ICE), an interdisciplinary model that proposes guidelines to design and study new technologies purposefully created to promote positive youth development (PYD). Two types of ICE have been developed: one focusing on stand-alone technologies for learning, such as the Zora virtual city; and the other focusing on an approach for developing technologically-rich learning contexts, such as the Project Inter-Actions robotics workshops. This paper presents both examples of ICE and describes how their design fosters the six components of PYD (6 C's). Initial findings from pilot studies conducted with very different populations of youth, such as young children, adolescents and chronically ill children, engaged in both types of ICE, are presented.Journal of Applied Developmental Science. Lawrence Erlbaum. Accepted for publication Vol. 11, No. 1 3 A theoretical frameworkA developmental systems approach to ADS provides a framework to design and evaluate programs and policies that promote positive development in young people by emphasizing their strengths and assets, instead of focusing on diminishing or preventing risk-taking behaviors.Most of the psycho educational programs conceived within the ADS model have not attended to the role of new technologies in young people's lives, or have limited their use for information delivery or retrieval. This omission is particularly striking given that, in today's world, new technologies play an important role in different domains of youngsters' lives, such as education, entertainment, socialization and communication. This article presents an interdisciplinary model supported by the beginning of an empirical research program to design and study new technologies to promote positive youth development (PYD). The purpose of the paper is to introduce to the ADS community a research program that constitutes an innovative approach to understand PYD in the context of new digital technologies used in complex real-world settings.The importance of this endeavor is underscored by the fact that children and teenagers are increasingly using computer-based applications for educational, entertainment and social activities. For example, from 1993 to 1999, the number of Americans connected to the Internet grew from 3 million t...

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The rise of shared virtual environments

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An experimental study on the role of touch in shared virtual environments

An experimental study on the role of touch in shared virtual environments

Causal Order Delivery in a Multicast Environment: An Improved Algorithm

The Role of New Technologies to Foster Positive Youth Development

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