Web-Based VR Experiments Powered by the Crowd

Ma, Xiao; Cackett, Megan; Park, Leslie; Chien, Eric; Нааман, Мор

doi:10.1145/3178876.3186034

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“…Researchers also conducted the first ethnographic study in VR with remote participants [16]. More recently, researchers investigated paid crowdsourced VR experiments [8], in which three studies were replicated and the feasibility of using head-mounted VR in crowdsourcing settings was shown. Furthermore, Mottelson et al [17] find that results quality holds when moving lab-based VR studies to outside-the-lab VR settings, with the complexity of the studied phenomenon governing this effect.…”

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“…With wider adoption of devices and developer platforms supporting virtual environment technologies, such as WebVR [5] or Google Cardboard [6], there is new promise in the kind of studies and experiments researchers can do in order to get insights that may not have been possible to get before. Despite the promise and scale of adoption of such technology, most experiments in virtual environments, with a few notable exceptions (e.g., [7][8][9]), are conducted in physical lab spaces or paid settings.…”

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Conducting online virtual environment experiments with uncompensated, unsupervised samples

Huber

Gajos

2020

PLoS ONE

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Web-based experimentation with uncompensated and unsupervised samples allows for a larger and more diverse sample population, more generalizable results, and faster theory to experiment cycle. Given that participants are unsupervised, it is still unknown whether the data collected in such settings would be of sufficiently high quality to support robust conclusions. Therefore, we investigated the feasibility of conducting such experiments online using virtual environment technologies. We conducted a conceptual replication of two prior experiments that have been conducted in virtual environments. Our results replicate findings previously obtained in conventional laboratory settings. These results hold across different device types of participants (ranging from desktop, through mobile devices to immersive virtual reality headsets), suggesting that experiments can be conducted online with uncompensated samples in virtual environments.

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Section: Behavioral Studies In Virtual Environmentsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conducting online virtual environment experiments with uncompensated, unsupervised samples

Huber

Gajos

2020

PLoS ONE

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“…VR technology opens up many opportunities for scientific visualization in many areas of sciences and can be used as a teaching media. Many VR devices and applications have been successfully built and several have been deployed and commercialized (Ma et al, 2018). The majority of VR systems run on handheld computing devices, such as tablets and smart phones that almost become commonplace in many schools around the world.…”

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Applying Virtual Reality Technology to Geoscience Classrooms

Chenrai¹,

Jitmahantakul²

2019

Review of International Geographical Education Online

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“…An increasing body of research in Information Science has been exploring Virtual Reality (VR). Recent work has emphasized using VR for conducting experiments [12], using VR for crowdwork [6], using VR to treat medical conditions [13] and studying what users think about this new technology [1].…”

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Defining virtual reality: Insights from research and practice

Maravilla¹,

Cisneros²,

Stoddard³

et al. 2019

iConference 2019 Proceedings

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Virtual reality (VR) technology is an increasing portion of the consumer technology market. VR technology is being used to treat PTSD, to create virtual worlds for users to explore, and to help teach students advanced visual concepts. Further, VR is a fruitful area for the focus of information science research. Researchers have begun to explore running simulated laboratory experiments in VR and conduct virtual usability tests. Prior work has typically considered "virtual reality" to be any experiences that are created by a tool, marketed as a VR product. However, such product-driven definitions of virtual reality may limit our ability to study and innovate within this field. As such, in this poster we present a work-in-progress study in which we extract information regarding the advancement of goals for VR, components of virtual experiences, and definitions of VR obtained from a body of academic literature and marketing materials for VR products from the 1960s through today. We use an affinity diagramming analysis to distill a comprehensive set of definitions for VR from this data. In future work, we will collect users' definitions of VR to further empirically inform our understanding of what makes up a VR. Such an understanding can serve as the foundation for future research and innovations in VR.

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Web-Based VR Experiments Powered by the Crowd

Cited by 42 publications

References 45 publications

Conducting online virtual environment experiments with uncompensated, unsupervised samples

Conducting online virtual environment experiments with uncompensated, unsupervised samples

Applying Virtual Reality Technology to Geoscience Classrooms

Defining virtual reality: Insights from research and practice

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