PSCVR: Physiological Sensing in Collaborative Virtual Reality
Prasanth Sasikumar, Yun Suen Pai, Huidong Bai, Mark Billinghurst · 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) · 2022
In a collaborative environment where more than a single user need to complete a task together, being able to understand each other's emotional status is essential for a successful outcome. This is especially evident in remote collaboration tasks where the physical distance may create a lack of understanding, empathy, and comprehension be-tween the partners. Typical remote collaboration systems share less information than that can be communicated in a physical interaction, which makes supporting awareness very challenging. Our proposed visual representation allows users to infer emotional patterns from physiological data, which could impact their communication style towards a more forceful or inactive and calm association. We investigate the potential effects of the proposed visual rep-resentation to support empathetic communication during remote collaboration, as well as the design guidelines for building such systems.