INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF COMMUNICATION AND INPUT DEVICES ON COLLABORATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

Anastasiia Beznosyk, Chris Raymaekers, Karin Coninx, Peter Quax, Wim Lamotte

2010

Abstract

As collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) are becoming more popular for both entertainment and professional activities, it is important to know which factors influence the collaboration between participants. This paper investigates two aspects of interaction in the context of collaboration between two users. A puzzle-solving task in a basic interactive virtual environment was used as a case study. The influence of voice communication was assessed in a user experiment. Furthermore, as different I/O devices can be used with this kind of applications, the fact whether both participants are using the same device or not, was also checked. From this study, we can conclude that the inclusion of voice communication is important when working on the same task in a CVE, since this allows the participants to explicitly divide the work. On the other hand, the usage of the same kind of device by both users does not significantly influence the collaboration. The availability of different devices shows not to be a problem for the acceptance of CVEs, and therefore it is not necessary to impose a certain device, which is obviously preferable, especially when dealing with home users.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Beznosyk A., Raymaekers C., Coninx K., Quax P. and Lamotte W. (2010). INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF COMMUNICATION AND INPUT DEVICES ON COLLABORATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-026-9, pages 341-346. DOI: 10.5220/0002822403410346

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp10,
author={Anastasiia Beznosyk and Chris Raymaekers and Karin Coninx and Peter Quax and Wim Lamotte},
title={INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF COMMUNICATION AND INPUT DEVICES ON COLLABORATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={341-346},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002822403410346},
isbn={978-989-674-026-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)
TI - INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF COMMUNICATION AND INPUT DEVICES ON COLLABORATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
SN - 978-989-674-026-9
AU - Beznosyk A.
AU - Raymaekers C.
AU - Coninx K.
AU - Quax P.
AU - Lamotte W.
PY - 2010
SP - 341
EP - 346
DO - 10.5220/0002822403410346