Towards a Taxonomy of Social VR Application Design

Jonas, Marcel; Said, Steven; Yu, Daniel; Aiello, Chris; Furlo, Nicholas; Zytko, Douglas

doi:10.1145/3341215.3356271

Cited by 71 publications

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“…The usability of a social VR has many angles. Recent surveys have focused on cataloging the scope of the interface (Jonas et al, 2019), the types of avatar supported (Kolesnichenko et al, 2019) or specific functionality such as facial expressions (Tanenbaum et al, 2020). Other recent work has focused on longer term relationships (Moustafa and Steed, 2018) in social VR, development of trust in social with others (Pan and Steed, 2017) or how users perceive their avatars (Freeman et al, 2020).…”

Section: Usability Of Social Virtual Realitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Virtual Reality Platform Comparison and Evaluation Using a Guided Group Walkthrough Method

Liu

Steed

2021

Front. Virtual Real.

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As virtual reality (VR) headsets become more commercially accessible, a range of social platforms have been developed that exploit the immersive nature of these systems. There is a growing interest in using these platforms in social and work contexts, but relatively little work into examining the usability choices that have been made. We developed a usability inspection method based on cognitive walkthrough that we call guided group walkthrough. Guided group walkthrough is applied to existing social VR platforms by having a guide walk the participants through a series of abstract social tasks that are common across the platforms. Using this method we compared six social VR platforms for the Oculus Quest. After constructing an appropriate task hierarchy and walkthrough question structure for social VR, we ran several groups of participants through the walkthrough process. We undercover usability challenges that are common across the platforms, identify specific design considerations and comment on the utility of the walkthrough method in this situation.

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Section: Usability Of Social Virtual Realitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Virtual Reality Platform Comparison and Evaluation Using a Guided Group Walkthrough Method

Liu

Steed

2021

Front. Virtual Real.

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“…In a social XR study using VR, Jonas and colleagues [130] developed a social VR application taxonomy that can be used when making design choices. The taxonomy is informed by prototypical and commercial applications found in the literature.…”

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“…This extends the capacity for personalization. Visual representations via avatars can differ substantially depending on the platform [130]. For some social XR platforms, the avatars can be represented as full bodies.…”

Section: Social Xr With Virtual Humansmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extended Reality for the Clinical, Affective, and Social Neurosciences

2020

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Brain science research often involves the use of low-dimensional tools and stimuli that lack several of the potentially valuable features of everyday activities and interactions. Although this research has provided important information about cognitive, affective, and social processes for both clinical and nonclinical populations, there is growing interest in high-dimensional simulations that extend reality. These high-dimensional simulations involve dynamic stimuli presented serially or concurrently to permit the assessment and training of perceivers’ integrative processes over time. Moreover, high-dimensional simulation platforms can contextually restrain interpretations of cues about a target’s internal states. Extended reality environments extend assessment and training platforms that balance experimental control with emotionally engaging background narratives aimed at extending the affective experience and social interactions. Herein, we highlight the promise of extended reality platforms for greater ecological validity in the clinical, affective, and social neurosciences.

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“…Unfortunately, the freedom of embodied social interaction like virtual social touch seems not to be limited to positive experiences, as physical harassment (e.g., unwanted "touching" of avatars) is already occurring in social VR applications [5]. However, based on a current taxonomy for the design of social VR research and industry applications, social touch does not yet seem to have received significant attention in studies on social VR [29]. Although the taxonomy identifies physical expressions from the body of literature as a communication type of interest in current VR prototypes, the work cited in the taxonomy does not yet investigate this communication type as an independent feature.…”

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confidence: 99%