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Screen-viewing Practices in Social Virtual Reality

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John Scott Siri Jr.,

Hamna Khalid,

Luong Nguyen,

Donghee Yvette WohnAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '18 Companion: Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 173 - 176

https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3274048

Published: 30 October 2018 Publication History

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This study reports screen-viewing practices in the social virtual reality platform Altspace, based on immersive observations. We identified what type of content is being watched and how the screen content facilitates, complements, or is the focus of social interactions.

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Wu LLiu QZhao JLank E(2023)Interactions across Displays and Space: A Study of Virtual Reality Streaming Practices on TwitchProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36264737:ISS(242-265)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2023
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Le DMaclntyre BOutlaw J(2020)Enhancing the Experience of Virtual Conferences in Social Virtual Environments2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00101(485-494)Online publication date: Mar-2020
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Jonas MSaid SYu DAiello CFurlo NZytko DArnedo JNacke LVanden Abeele VNew Mexico State University, New Mexico, USA Z(2019)Towards a Taxonomy of Social VR Application DesignExtended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts10.1145/3341215.3356271(437-444)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2019
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Screen-viewing Practices in Social Virtual Reality
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Empirical studies in HCI
    2. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. User studies

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CSCW '18 Companion: Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

October 2018

518 pages

ISBN:9781450360180

DOI:10.1145/3272973

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University of Twente
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Vienna University of Technology
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University of Illinois
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Wu LLiu QZhao JLank E(2023)Interactions across Displays and Space: A Study of Virtual Reality Streaming Practices on TwitchProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36264737:ISS(242-265)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626473
Le DMaclntyre BOutlaw J(2020)Enhancing the Experience of Virtual Conferences in Social Virtual Environments2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00101(485-494)Online publication date: Mar-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00101
Jonas MSaid SYu DAiello CFurlo NZytko DArnedo JNacke LVanden Abeele VNew Mexico State University, New Mexico, USA Z(2019)Towards a Taxonomy of Social VR Application DesignExtended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts10.1145/3341215.3356271(437-444)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3341215.3356271

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