October 16th, 2020
Categories: Applications, Architecture, Human Factors, MS / PhD Thesis, User Groups, Tele-Collaboration, Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
We developed a collaborative virtual environment for architectural planning that facilitates groups of people to work together using three different interfaces. These interfaces enable users to interact with the scene with varying levels of immersion and different interaction modalities. We conducted a user study to gauge the general usability of the system and to understand how the different interfaces affect the group work. In this paper we present the architecture of the system along with its different interfaces. We also present the user study results and the insights we gained from the study.
Keywords: group work, collaborative environments
Bharadwaj. K., Johnson, A., A Hybrid Collaborative Virtual Environment with Heterogeneous Representations for Architectural Planning, EAI CollaborateCom 2020, October 16th, 2020.