Using Teleporting, Awareness and Multiple Views to Improve Teamwork in Collaborative Virtual Environments

Dodds, Trevor J.; Ruddle, Roy A.

Using Teleporting, Awareness and Multiple Views to Improve Teamwork in Collaborative Virtual Environments

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2008

Authors

Dodds, Trevor J.
Ruddle, Roy A.

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Mobile Group Dynamics (MGDs) are a suite of techniques that help people work together in large-scale col- laborative virtual environments (CVEs). The present paper describes the implementation and evaluation of three additional MGDs techniques (teleporting, awareness and multiple views) which, when combined, produced a 4 times increase in the amount that participants communicated in a CVE and also significantly increased the extent to which participants communicated over extended distances in the CVE. The MGDs were evaluated using an urban planning scenario using groups of either seven (teleporting + awareness) or eight (teleporting + awareness + multiple views) participants. The study has implications for CVE designers, because it provides quantitative and qualitative data about how teleporting, awareness and multiple views improve groupwork in CVEs.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGVE/EGVE08/081-088
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments
},
editor = {Robert van Liere and Betty Mohler
},
title = {{Using Teleporting, Awareness and Multiple Views to Improve Teamwork in Collaborative Virtual Environments
}},
author = {Dodds, Trevor J. and 
Ruddle, Roy A.
},
year = {2008
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-530X
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-06-4
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGVE/EGVE08/081-088
}
}