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Social Interactions in Virtual Reality: What Cues Do People Use Most and How

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Jingchao Fang,

Victoria Chang,

Ge Gao,

Hao-Chuan WangAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '21 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 49 - 52

https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481772

Published: 23 October 2021 Publication History

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Social virtual reality (VR) has become increasingly popular. People today can leverage VR to meet and interact with others, especially when face-to-face (F2F) social events are not as practical. While strategies and cues being used in F2F interactions have been previously studied in CSCW, it remains unclear how people use various cues to interact with others in VR-based events, and whether the usage of different cues in such VR events differs from F2F interactions. To start addressing these questions, we conducted an online survey study, inviting VR event attendees to recall their recent social interaction experiences and cues usage in initiating, maintaining, and finishing interactions with event co-attendees in VR and F2F situations respectively (N=51). Results from the survey revealed differential cues usage in VR-based and in F2F interactions, which could shed light on the design of VR tools toward supporting online social events.

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CSCW '21 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

October 2021

370 pages

ISBN:9781450384797

DOI:10.1145/3462204

Editors:
Jeremy Birnholtz
Northwestern University, USA
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Luigina Ciolfi
University College Cork, Ireland
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Sharon Ding
Fudan University, China
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Susan Fussell
Cornell University, USA
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Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Snap, Inc., USA
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Sean Munson
University of Washington, USA
,
Irina Shklovski
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Mor Naaman
Cornell Tech, USA

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