Effects of Sharing Real-Time Multi-Sensory Heart Rate Feedback in Different Immersive Collaborative Virtual Environments

A. Dey , H. Chen , Z. Chang , M. Billinghurst , R. W. Lindeman

ISMAR

Collaboration in VR lacks the empathetic cues that let people sense each other's emotional state. Through a rigorous mixed-factorial experiment across three environments requiring different kinds of collaboration, this study evaluated the effect of sharing real-time heart-rate feedback between collaborators. With the feedback, participants felt their collaborator's presence more strongly, felt they better understood their emotional state, and felt more dominant in the task — leading to design guidelines for collaborative VR.

@inproceedings{dey2018,
  author    = {A. Dey and H. Chen and Z. Chang and M. Billinghurst and R. W. Lindeman},
  title     = {Effects of Sharing Real-Time Multi-Sensory Heart Rate Feedback in Different Immersive Collaborative Virtual Environments},
  booktitle = {ISMAR},
  pages     = {165-173},
  doi       = {10.1109/ISMAR.2018.00052},
  year      = {2018}
}