The effects of sharing viewpoints on task performance in collaborative VR applications
| dc.contributor.advisor | Maurer, Frank | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aminbeidokhti, Amir | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Far, Behrouz | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Zhao, Richard | |
| dc.date | 2023-06 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-14T19:42:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-02-14T19:42:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-02-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | While virtual reality applications allow for face-to-face collaboration and the ability to see each other’s avatars, having different graphical viewpoints can hinder task performance due to the confusion caused by left-right ambiguities and text orientation. In this thesis, we investigate the effect of altering collaborators’ viewpoints and sharing one collaborator’s viewpoint with the other without moving the avatars’ positions in a collaboration between two people in Virtual Reality. We created a Virtual Reality application and twelve scenarios to understand this approach’s effect. Two terms were defined: Shared Viewpoint, which is when users’ graphical viewpoints are decoupled from their avatars and put next to each other, and Independent Viewpoint, in which users’ graphical viewpoints are where their avatars are located. A user study is conducted to gather qualitative and quantitative data. We calculated task completion time and users’ preferences when they have a shared graphical viewpoint from the virtual world and object. Our findings showed that users prefer a shared viewpoint rather than independent viewpoints. Additionally, we discovered that having a shared viewpoint can either increase or decrease task completion time, depending on the relative positions of avatars around the table. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Aminbeidokhti, A. (2023). The effects of sharing viewpoints on task performance in collaborative VR applications (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/115863 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/40754 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Science | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | en_US |
| dc.subject | VR | en_US |
| dc.subject | Collaboration in VR | en_US |
| dc.subject | Shared viewpoint | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Computer Science | en_US |
| dc.title | The effects of sharing viewpoints on task performance in collaborative VR applications | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Computer Science | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science (MSc) | en_US |
| ucalgary.item.requestcopy | false | en_US |