Elaboration of a common frame of reference in Collaborative Virtual Environments

Amine Chellali (1) , Isabelle Milleville-Pennel (1) , Cédric Dumas (1)

1 IRCCyN - Institut de Recherche en Communications et en Cybernétique de Nantes

Motivation – To design virtual environments that support collaborative activities. Research approach – An experimental approach in which 44 students were asked to work in pairs to reconstruct five 3D figures. Findings/Design – The results show that including a contextual clue in virtual environments improves collaboration between operators. Research limitations – Further investigative work must be carried out to extract accurate female collaboration profiles. Originality/Value – The results enable three collaboration profiles to be identified. They also allow the extraction of some characteristics of a contextual clue which can be added to a virtual environment to improve collaboration. Take away message – The contents of a collaborative virtual environment influences the way that users collaborate.

Mots clés: Virtual environment; collaboration; common frame of reference; 3D interface

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Amine Chellali, Isabelle Milleville-Pennel, Cédric Dumas. Elaboration of a common frame of reference in Collaborative Virtual Environments. European conference on Cognitive ergonomics: ECCE 2008, Sep 2008, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. pp.83-90, ⟨10.1145/1473018.1473045⟩. ⟨hal-00470443⟩