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Article

How Can One Share a User’s Activity during VR Synchronous Augmentative Cooperation?

by
Thomas Rinnert
1,2,3,4,*,
James Walsh
1,4,
Cédric Fleury
1,2,3,
Gilles Coppin
1,2,3,4,
Thierry Duval
1,2,3 and
Bruce H. Thomas
1,4
1
Crossing IRL 2010, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Adelaide 5005, Australia
2
Lab-STICC, UMR CNRS 6285, 29238 Brest, France
3
Department of Computer Science, IMT Atlantique, 29238 Brest, France
4
Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments, University of South Australia, Adelaide 5095, Australia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2023, 7(2), 20; https://doi.org/10.3390/mti7020020
Submission received: 14 December 2022 / Revised: 2 February 2023 / Accepted: 4 February 2023 / Published: 14 February 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Human–Computer Interaction (Volume II))
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Collaborative virtual environments allow people to work together while being distant. At the same time, empathic computing aims to create a deeper shared understanding between people. In this paper, we investigate how to improve the perception of distant collaborative activities in a virtual environment by sharing users’ activity. We first propose several visualization techniques for sharing the activity of multiple users. We selected one of these techniques for a pilot study and evaluated its benefits in a controlled experiment using a virtual reality adaptation of the NASA MATB-II (Multi-Attribute Task Battery). Results show (1) that instantaneous indicators of users’ activity are preferred to indicators that continuously display the progress of a task, and (2) that participants are more confident in their ability to detect users needing help when using activity indicators.
Keywords: VR; virtual reality; collaborative virtual environments; empathic computing; collaborative awareness VR; virtual reality; collaborative virtual environments; empathic computing; collaborative awareness
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Rinnert, T.; Walsh, J.; Fleury, C.; Coppin, G.; Duval, T.; Thomas, B.H. How Can One Share a User’s Activity during VR Synchronous Augmentative Cooperation? Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2023, 7, 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti7020020

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Rinnert T, Walsh J, Fleury C, Coppin G, Duval T, Thomas BH. How Can One Share a User’s Activity during VR Synchronous Augmentative Cooperation? Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 2023; 7(2):20. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti7020020

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Rinnert, Thomas, James Walsh, Cédric Fleury, Gilles Coppin, Thierry Duval, and Bruce H. Thomas. 2023. "How Can One Share a User’s Activity during VR Synchronous Augmentative Cooperation?" Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 7, no. 2: 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti7020020

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Rinnert, T., Walsh, J., Fleury, C., Coppin, G., Duval, T., & Thomas, B. H. (2023). How Can One Share a User’s Activity during VR Synchronous Augmentative Cooperation? Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 7(2), 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti7020020

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