Social VR: A New medium for remote communication and collaboration

Jie Li; Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy; Raz Schwartz; Wijnand Ijsselsteijn; David A. Shamma; Pablo Cesar

doi:10.1145/3334480.3375160

Social VR: A New medium for remote communication and collaboration

Jie Li
, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy
, Raz Schwartz
, Wijnand Ijsselsteijn
, David A. Shamma
, Pablo Cesar

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

23 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

There is a growing need for effective remote communication, which has many positive societal impacts, such as reducing environmental pollution and travel costs, supporting rich collaboration by remotely connecting talented people. Social Virtual Reality (VR) invites multiple users to join a collaborative virtual environment, which creates new opportunities for remote communication. The goal of social VR is not to completely replicate reality, but to facilitate and extend the existing communication channels of the physical world. Apart from the benefits provided by social VR, privacy concerns and ethical risks are raised when the boundary between the real and the virtual world is blurred. This workshop is intended to spur discussions regarding technology, evaluation protocols, application areas, research ethics and legal regulations for social VR as an emerging immersive remote communication tool.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450368193
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3375160
Publication status	Published - 25 Apr 2020
Event	2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020 - Hawaiʻi Convention Center, Honolulu, United States Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020 https://chi2020.acm.org

Conference

Conference	2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020
Abbreviated title	CHI 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	25/04/20 → 30/04/20
Internet address	https://chi2020.acm.org

Funding

This workshop proposal is partly funded by the European Commission as part of the H2020 program, under the grant agreement 762111, "VRTogether" (http://vrtogether.eu/).

Keywords

Remote communication
Social VR
VR ethics
VR evaluation metrics

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Li, J, Vinayagamoorthy, V, Schwartz, R, Ijsselsteijn, W, Shamma, DA & Cesar, P 2020, Social VR: A New medium for remote communication and collaboration. in CHI EA 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 3375160, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 25/04/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3375160

Social VR: A New medium for remote communication and collaboration. / Li, Jie; Vinayagamoorthy, Vinoba; Schwartz, Raz et al.
CHI EA 2020 - Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2020. 3375160.

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