Towards Collaborative Learning in Virtual Reality: A Comparison of Co-Located Symmetric and Asymmetric Pair-Learning

Drey, Tobias; Albus, Patrick; Kinderen, Simon der; Milo, Maximilian; Segschneider, Thilo; Chanzab, Linda; Rietzler, Michael; Seufert, Tina; Rukzio, Enrico

doi:10.1145/3491102.3517641

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“…Asymmetric collaborative visualization, no matter the complexity of the task and the level of asymmetry (i.e., PC-VR with the mirrored VR or PC-VR with the refined VR) in the interface, did not affect collaboration much in terms of task performance and communication. Based on the result, we found that there was no significant difference between asymmetric and symmetric collaboration in task completion time and accuracy in both studies, similar to a previous finding [14]. One possible reason is that almost the same analytical functionality was given to all conditions.…”

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confidence: 86%

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Towards an Understanding of Distributed Asymmetric Collaborative Visualization on Problem-solving

Tong¹,

Meng²,

Kwai³

et al. 2023

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performed significantly better than in the AR symmetric setting and similar to the VR symmetric setting.However, limited studies [45] have investigated asymmetric collaboration in the context of data visualization. As the first step, we conduct studies to deepen our understanding of asymmetric collaborative visualization, particularly about the asymmetrical use of devices. Our result could benefit and guide the future design of asymmetric collaborative visualization systems.

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“…And that kind of motivated me to connect the nodes together." It echos prior work that asymmetric setting improves motivation [14]. However, for collaboration experience, P1 and P11 reasoned that they were uncomfortable with asymmetric working space.…”

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Towards an Understanding of Distributed Asymmetric Collaborative Visualization on Problem-solving

Tong¹,

Meng²,

Kwai³

et al. 2023

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“…Indeed, the disability of certain employees or the unavailability of equipment in the organization make it critical for these asymmetric situations to function satisfactorily. Drey et al (2022) revealed some positive results with technological asymmetry, but their control group was also asymmetric, with only less elaborated functions. In the present study, we revealed some positive impacts of symmetry in comparison with asymmetric condition.…”

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“…Some recent studies show rather positive effects of technological asymmetry, for example in education when several students use technology together (Thomsen, Nilsson, Nordahl and Lohmann, 2019). In a learning situation, the VR+tablet configuration appears to be better than the VR+VR configuration in terms of presence, immersion and reduction of cognitive load (Drey et al, 2022). In collocated asymmetric VR, the use of a tablet with functionalities of visualization and annotations improve the performance of the collaboration (less time wasted, less errors on the task) in comparison with a simple streaming of the VR content on a screen (Thoravi Kumaravel, Nguyen, DiVerdi and Hartmann, 2020).…”

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Studying the effect of symmetry in team structures on collaborative tasks in virtual reality

Agnès

Fleury

Vanukuru

et al. 2022

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Studies involving collaboration in groups are frequently carried out under symmetrical conditions, meaning that all team members have the same role at the same time. In Virtual Reality, symmetrical collaboration often seems attractive as it allows all participants to be included in the VR environment, but it is not clear whether this provides any benefits over asymmetric forms of collaboration, such as when some team members are in VR while others are working on laptops. We conducted a study to compare the conditions of symmetric configurations (both team members use VR) and asymmetric configurations (one member in VR, and the other uses a laptop) when two participants performed a creativity task together. We found that there were differences in participant behavior and the ideas generated. We conclude by proposing guidelines for future work in the area, particularly related to the use of Virtual Reality for creativity workshops.

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“…They also found that teachers experienced difficulties in orientation in the VRE when following the asymmetric mode and had to rely on the students, following the symmetric mode, to ensure correct understanding of the environment. This caused communication problems between students and teachers in the symmetric/asymmetric mode [35]. Hence, it appears that symmetric collaboration helps the users recall objects in the VRE more accurately and, therefore, there are indications it might improve the learning process as compared to the traditional learning environments by enhancing the motivation towards the tasks at hand and increasing the sense of co-presence, communication and immersiveness.…”

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Collaboration in Virtual Reality: Survey and Perspectives

Xanthidou

Aburumman

Ben-Abdallah

2023

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The application of Virtual Reality Environments (VRE) has been gaining momentum as a relatively new tool to assist with mitigating various difficulties including abstractness of concepts, lack of user engagement, perception of disconnection from other users. A VRE may offer both synchronous and asynchronous experiences, in addition to an immersive environment which promotes users’ engagement. Past research has shown that, in general, VRE do improve the experiences they try to enhance in many aspects of human activity. Terms like immersiveness and 3D representation of real life objects and environments are, as it appears, the two most obvious positive effects of Virtual Reality (VR) applications. However, despite these benefits it does not come without challenges. The main three concepts/challenges are the spatial design, the collaboration interaction between its members and the VRE, and the audio and video fidelity. Each of the three includes a number of other components that should be addressed for the total experience to be fine-tuned. These include mutual embodiment and shared perspectives, teleportation, gestural interaction, symmetric and asymmetric collaboration, physical and virtual co-location, inventory, and time and spatial synchronization. This paper comprises a survey of the literature, that identifies and explains the features introduced and the challenges involved with the VREs, and furthermore provides various interesting future research directions.

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Towards Collaborative Learning in Virtual Reality: A Comparison of Co-Located Symmetric and Asymmetric Pair-Learning

Cited by 49 publications

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Towards an Understanding of Distributed Asymmetric Collaborative Visualization on Problem-solving

Towards an Understanding of Distributed Asymmetric Collaborative Visualization on Problem-solving

Studying the effect of symmetry in team structures on collaborative tasks in virtual reality

Collaboration in Virtual Reality: Survey and Perspectives

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