Beyond Replication: Augmenting Social Behaviors in Multi-User Social Virtual Realities

Roth D, Kleinbeck C, Feigl T, Mutschler C, Latoschik ME (2018)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article

Publication year: 2018

Publisher: IEEE Xplore

Pages Range: 215-222

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR 2018)

Event location: Reutlingen

ISBN: 978-1-5386-3365-6

URI: https://www.hci.uni-wuerzburg.de/download/2018-ieeevr-behav-augm-preprint.pdf

DOI: 10.1109/VR.2018.8447550

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach for the augmentation of so- cial behaviors in virtual reality (VR). We designed three visual transformations for behavioral phenomena crucial to everyday so- cial interactions: eye contact, joint attention, and grouping. To evaluate the approach, we let users interact socially in a virtual mu- seum using a large-scale multi-user tracking environment. Using a between-subject design (N = 125) we formed groups of five par- ticipants. Participants were represented as simplified avatars and experienced the virtual museum simultaneously, either with or with- out the augmentations. Our results indicate that our approach can significantly increase social presence in multi-user environments and that the augmented experience appears more thought-provoking. Furthermore, the augmentations seem also to affect the actual behav- ior of participants with regard to more eye contact and more focus on avatars/objects in the scene. We interpret these findings as first indicators for the potential of social augmentations to impact social perception and behavior in VR.

Authors with CRIS profile

Daniel Roth
Tobias Feigl Lehrstuhl für Informatik 2 (Programmiersysteme) Christopher Mutschler Lehrstuhl für Informatik 2 (Programmiersysteme)

Related research project(s)

Recurrent Neuronal Networks (RNNs) for Real-Time Estimation of Nonlinear Motion Models (RuNN) Oct. 1, 2017 - March 31, 2021

Involved external institutions

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Roth, D., Kleinbeck, C., Feigl, T., Mutschler, C., & Latoschik, M.-E. (2018). Beyond Replication: Augmenting Social Behaviors in Multi-User Social Virtual Realities. In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR 2018) (pp. 215-222). Reutlingen, DE: IEEE Xplore.

MLA:

Roth, Daniel, et al. "Beyond Replication: Augmenting Social Behaviors in Multi-User Social Virtual Realities." Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR 2018), Reutlingen IEEE Xplore, 2018. 215-222.

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