Measuring and Understanding Photo Sharing Experiences in Social Virtual Reality

Li, Jie; Kong, Yiping; Röggla, Thomas; Simone, F.; Ananthanarayan, Swamy; Ridder, Huib de; Ali, Abdallah El; César, Pablo

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300897

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“…This can realize realistic social participation and improve safety. Moreover, Jie Li et al compared the photo sharing experience under social VR with Skype and Facebook spaces, and found that social VR was closer to face-to-face (F2F) sharing [32,35]. Baker et al [36] studied 22 elderly individuals to obtain their views on social VR in the form of a workshop, and suggested that social VR virtual items could trigger memories that could be shared with others, meeting their social needs [33].…”

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“…(1) Most of the current literature on social VR is aimed at the young, with few designed for the needs of the elderly [35,42,43]. (2) In addition, studies on the elderly centers on the design of the virtual avatar [36], with no comprehensive consideration of multiple dimensions and variable factors, and no guidance based on them.…”

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Acceptance and Influencing Factors of Social Virtual Reality in the Urban Elderly

Shao

Lee

2020

Sustainability

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In the stage of aging society and population aging, the social needs of the elderly are widely discussed by researchers. Especially driven by the demand of tele-medical treatment and tele-rehabilitation therapy, it is vital for the elderly to integrate into virtual communities by combining social virtual reality (VR) with different medical services and entertainment needs. In addition, affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, it is more difficult for people to have face-to-face contacts. With more remote consultation, entertainment and virtual social connectivity, the application of social VR is more urgent and valuable. However, there is little discussion on the acceptability and influencing factors of social VR among the elderly at present. Therefore, in order to get further data, we used (1) early stage semi-structured interviews and then (2) Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) questionnaires for investigation. One hundred fourteen elderly people aged 60–89 living in the metropolitan area of Taipei were taken as the subjects. To help them understand the situation and state of using social VR, these elderly people were asked to use a head-mounted display (HMD) to experience social VR games. The preliminary results showed that the elderly had obvious preference for entertainment (32.4%) and medical treatment (31.3%). The interview showed that this was related to the physiological condition or medical needs of the age range. In order to further understand how social VR would affect the social life of the elderly, we proposed the further demand structure of UTAUT Model based on the interview of both experts and the elderly. The model structures include (1) Performance Expectancy, (2) Perceived Enjoyment, (3) Social Influence, (4) User Attitude, (5) Behavioral Intention, and so on. These structures were applied to conduct interviews and questionnaires to find out the influence extent and relevance of the elderly on different structural needs, and suggestions were given accordingly. The results of the above interviews showed that (1) the elderly thought that the functions of entertaining and interacting of social VR could increase their social opportunities, and also meet medical needs (teleconference, cognitive decline, etc.), (2) the closeness of social relations (between family members, friends, doctors, and places), and also affect the relevance of Perceived Enjoyment (β = 0.77, p = 0.000 < 0.05). The results of these phenomena and interviews showed the interplay between the demand structures and their special relevance. They also indicated that as to social VR technologies, various demands and functional issues of the elderly need to be considered, and these demands would appear in the subtle usage, and different social VR interfaces and functions would emerge based on their special living ways and physical and psychological demands.

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Section: Advantages Of Vr Technology In Social Developmentmentioning

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Section: Gaps In Previous Studiesmentioning

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Acceptance and Influencing Factors of Social Virtual Reality in the Urban Elderly

Shao

Lee

2020

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“…As an augmentation, social VR provides many benefits. First, it immerses the users in the same virtual world, providing realistic and co-presence experience [19]. Second, it uses virtual representations to offer embodiment experiences to users, and abilities to interact with the virtual environment and artifacts [13].…”

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“…Second, it uses virtual representations to offer embodiment experiences to users, and abilities to interact with the virtual environment and artifacts [13]. Third, it enables the sense of social connectedness [19] and allows people to see and feel from other person's perspective [31].…”

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Designing a Social VR Clinic for Medical Consultations

Guo

Ridder

et al. 2020

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Social Virtual Reality (VR) invites multiple users to "interact" in a shared immersive environment, which creates new opportunities for remote communication, and can potentially be a new tool for remote medical consultations. Using knee osteoarthritis consultation as a use case, this paper presents a social VR clinic that allows patients to consult a nurse represented as a virtual avatar with head, upper body and hands visible. We started with an ethnographic study at a hospital with three medical professionals and observed three patient consultation sessions to map the patient treatment journey (PTJ) and distill design requirements for social VR consultation. Based on the results of the study, we designed and implemented a social VR clinic to meet the identified requirements. Our work expands on the potential of social VR to help reshape patient treatment by reducing the workload of medical staff and the travel time of patients. In the future, we plan to conduct user studies to compare face-to-face (F2F) with social VR consultations.

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“…The users' audio and visual interactions, including the HMD viewports for the sVR sessions, and recordings of their body movements, are captured. After testing each system, users are asked to fill in a questionnaire designed for the purpose of our test based on an adaptation of the questionnaire described and evaluated at [5]. The questionnaire focuses on three main factors: the quality of interaction, the social connectedness, and the sense of presence/immersion experienced by the users.…”

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Watching Videos Together in Social Virtual Reality: An Experimental Study on User's QoE

Simone

Debarba

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)

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In this paper, we describe a user study in which pairs of users watch a video trailer and interact with each other, using two social Virtual Reality (sVR) systems, as well as in a face-to-face condition. The sVR systems are: Facebook Spaces, based on puppet-like customized avatars, and a video-based sVR system using photo-realistic virtual user representations. We collect subjective and objective data to analyze users' Quality of Experience (QoE) and compare their interaction in VR to that observed during the real-life scenario. Our results show that the experience delivered by the video-based sVR system is comparable with real-life settings, while the puppet-based avatars limit the perceived quality of the interaction. Our protocol for QoE assessment is fully documented to allow replication in similar experiments.

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Measuring and Understanding Photo Sharing Experiences in Social Virtual Reality

Cited by 64 publications

References 60 publications

Acceptance and Influencing Factors of Social Virtual Reality in the Urban Elderly

Acceptance and Influencing Factors of Social Virtual Reality in the Urban Elderly

Designing a Social VR Clinic for Medical Consultations

Watching Videos Together in Social Virtual Reality: An Experimental Study on User's QoE

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