Emotion Sharing and Augmentation in Cooperative Virtual Reality Games

Hart, Jonathon D.; Piumsomboon, Thammathip; Lawrence, Louise; Lee, Gun; Smith, Ross; Billinghurst, Mark

doi:10.1145/3270316.3271543

Cited by 25 publications

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“…Ideally, emotions would be triggered automatically. We note the body of work that continues to investigate automated ways to incorporate emotional expressions onto avatars in virtual environments [7,15,31]. Our research contributes to these ongoing efforts by stressing that any successful emotion inferring system must be robust enough that non-technical users can use the feature without the need for intrusive, fragile or expensive equipment.…”

Section: Emotions and Non-verbal Communication In Amcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Avatar-Mediated Communication in Social VR: An In-depth Exploration of Older Adult Interaction in an Emerging Communication Platform

Baker

Waycott

Carrasco

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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While HCI researchers have begun designing personalised VR experiences for older adults, there has been limited research examining the use of social VR -where users interact via avatars in a virtual environment. Avatar-mediated communication (AMC) is a crucial component of the social VR experience, but older users' experience with AMC is poorly understood. We conducted a five-month study with 16 older adults evaluating a co-designed social VR prototype. Results show that AMC in social VR was seen as medium that supported introverted users to express themselves and was viewed as offering advantages when discussing sensitive topics. Our study provides new insights into how older adults view AMC in social VR as a communication medium and we contribute six design reflections, based on our results, that highlight the steps that can be taken to ensure that AMC in social VR can meet the communication needs of older users.

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Section: Emotions and Non-verbal Communication In Amcmentioning

confidence: 99%

Avatar-Mediated Communication in Social VR: An In-depth Exploration of Older Adult Interaction in an Emerging Communication Platform

Baker

Waycott

Carrasco

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…The replication of behavior was limited to keyboard input, and participants reported a lack of feedback due to missing body movement and body language [Tromp et al 1998]. Steptoe, Roberts and colleagues investigated additional modalities for social interaction by including eye gaze [Hart et al 2018a], © 2018 Hart, et al) c) augmented nonverbal mimicry [Roth et al 2018c] (© 2018 Roth, et al), d) visual transformation, substitution, and amplification of social behaviors [Roth et al 2018a] (© 2018 IEEE /Roth, et al). et al 2009].…”

Section: Avatar-mediated Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technologies for Social Augmentations in User-Embodied Virtual Reality

Roth

Bente

Kullmann

et al. 2019

25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

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“…Our work tracks the same features, and also tracks hands and the full face, but our focus is on studying interaction patterns relative to a videoconference baseline, so we do not intentionally modify participant behavior. Other work has also explored the potential of adaptation, focusing on facial expressions in VR [26]. These studies point to the additional potential VR offers for modified or augmented social interaction.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Videoconference and Embodied VR: Communication Patterns Across Task and Medium

Abdullah

Kolkmeier

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Videoconference has become the dominant technology for remote meetings. Embodied Virtual Reality is a potential alternative that employs motion tracking in order to place people in a shared virtual environment as avatars. This paper describes a 210 participant study focused on behavioral measures that compares multiparty interaction in videoconference and embodied VR across a range of task types: a factual intellective task, a subjective judgment task and two negotiation tasks, one with visual grounding. It uses state-of-the-art body, face and finger tracking to drive the avatars in VR and a carefully matched videoconferencing implementation. Significant behavioral differences are observed. These include increased activity in videoconference related to maintaining the social connection: more person directed gaze and increased verbal and nonverbal backchannel behavior. Videoconference also had reduced conversational overlap, increased self-adaptor gestures and reduced deictic gestures as compared with embodied VR. Potential explanations and implications are discussed.

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Emotion Sharing and Augmentation in Cooperative Virtual Reality Games

Cited by 25 publications

References 17 publications

Avatar-Mediated Communication in Social VR: An In-depth Exploration of Older Adult Interaction in an Emerging Communication Platform

Avatar-Mediated Communication in Social VR: An In-depth Exploration of Older Adult Interaction in an Emerging Communication Platform

Technologies for Social Augmentations in User-Embodied Virtual Reality

Videoconference and Embodied VR: Communication Patterns Across Task and Medium

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