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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
|June 17, 2025
Summary
Avatar representation, particularly of a partner, significantly boosts social presence in shared virtual environments (SVEs). Haptic interaction alone is insufficient, but neither impacts task performance, highlighting the need for combined visual and haptic cues in remote collaboration.
Area of Science:
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Virtual Reality
- Collaborative Systems
Background:
- Shared Virtual Environments (SVEs) facilitate remote collaboration.
- Understanding factors influencing social presence and task performance in SVEs is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the interplay between haptic interaction and avatar representation in SVEs.
- To determine their effects on social presence and task performance during dyadic collaboration.
Main Methods:
- Experiments involving participants performing a collaborative task with haptic feedback.
- Four avatar conditions were tested: full, self-only, partner-only, and no avatars.
- Measured social presence, task performance, and force effort.
Main Results:
- Partner avatar representation significantly enhanced social presence perception.
- Haptic interaction alone did not fully achieve high social presence.
- Neither avatar presence nor type affected task performance or force effort.
Conclusions:
- Avatar representation, especially of the partner, is key for social presence in SVEs.
- Haptic interaction provides adequate task execution cues.
- Integrating visual (avatar) and haptic modalities optimizes remote collaboration and social presence.
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