EAGER: Collaborative Research: Attention, (Re)Action, and Perception: Measuring Presence in Collaborative Virtual Environments

当前的通信和协作技术不能提供可以改变团队绩效的高度交互和多模式能力。协作虚拟环境为分布式协作者提供了一种全新的交互和工作方式。衡量协作虚拟环境质量的一个指标是它在多大程度上创造了一种临场感，即身临其境的感觉。但关于在场和绩效之间的联系的经验证据有限，特别是在协作团队合作的背景下。建立在线状态和绩效之间的联系是复杂的，因为需要捕获客观的、适当敏感的协作虚拟在线状态的行为指标，并探索各种环境和个人影响。本项目将：(1)开发一种测量方法来评估注意力和(重)行动作为协同虚拟环境中协同虚拟存在的行为(非主观)指标；(2)考察协同虚拟环境中协同虚拟呈现的行为测量和感知测量之间的关系；以及(3)探索协作虚拟呈现测量对环境条件和个体特征的敏感性。这项研究对组织工作的潜在变革性协同虚拟环境的发展和演变具有基础性意义。鉴于存在在协作虚拟环境的效用中的核心作用，我们必须有可靠的测量和测量工具，以便能够将存在作为设计变量来操纵。这项研究将产生一种测量方法，用于捕获协作虚拟存在的行为指标，并评估协作虚拟存在测量的预测能力和灵敏度。

Current communication and collaboration technologies fall short of providing the highly interactive and multi-modal capabilities that can transform team performance. Collaborative virtual environments present an entirely new way for distributed collaborators to interact and work. A metric of the quality of a collaborative virtual environment is the degree to which it creates a sense of presence described as the feeling of ?being there? in the virtual place, but there is limited empirical evidence regarding the link between presence and performance, particularly in the context of collaborative teamwork. Establishing the link between presence and performance is complicated by the challenge of capturing objective, appropriately sensitive behavioral indicators of collaborative virtual presence and exploring various environmental and individual influences. This project will: (1) develop a measurement methodology for assessing attention and (re)action as behavioral (non-subjective) indicators of collaborative virtual presence in collaborative virtual environments; (2) examine the relationship between behavioral and perceptual measures of collaborative virtual presence in a collaborative virtual environment; and (3) explore the sensitivity of the collaborative virtual presence measures to varied environmental conditions and individual characteristics. This research is fundamental to the development and evolution of potentially transformative collaborative virtual environments for organizational work. Given the central role of presence in the utility of collaborative virtual environments, we must have reliable measures and measurement instruments in order to enable the manipulation of presence as a design variable. This research will result in a measurement methodology for capturing behavioral indicators of collaborative virtual presence and an assessment of the predictive capability and sensitivity of the collaborative virtual presence measures.