UX: space (II) social space
Social Interaction: background information
For a quick introduction in to the theoretical body of knowledge of social space in the virtual world, specified on VR implementation, have look at the videos below.
1. The Psychology of Social Interaction 2. Challenges in Human-Avatar Interaction I 3. Challenges in Human-Agent Interaction II 4. Evaluation of Social Interaction in VR 5. Self-Avatar | Implementation and Applications 6. Summary of Social VR
Personal Space in VR
Personal Space, Proxemics, a termed coined by Edward Hall in 1963, is a subclass of non-verbal communication that relates to the distances that people maintain between each other out of personal or cultural preference or in different contexts. Hall distinguished between basic categories of distance including intimate, personal, social and public. For example, a zone of 45cm around a person is considered personal territory and reserved only for close friends. Beyond this is social space in which normal interaction between colleagues and strangers takes place. This does, of course, depend on context. Think, for example, of sharing a crowded lift full of strangers. Our normal boundaries in this case must be changed to accommodate the context. In general however transgression of territorial zones may be considered either alarming or even threatening and our physiology has evolved to make us aware of, and react to, these situations.
article 1: Proxemics in social VR article 2: VR Theory: Proxemics (Part 1)
Social Space in VR
Social VR is still young, as companies are starting to figure out how to best match up people and let them have a grand virtual time. So what exactly are the differences between them, and which world is the best for your needs? article 3: Social Reality: the social VR platforms worth diving into article 4: The VR Sociable Network article 5: Understanding, Experiences and Sharing: from Interaction to Empathy
George Siantonas talks about how virtual working impacts on the dynamics of teams in multi national organisations and how to deal with some of the challenges this causes. Challenges of Virtual Working | George Siantonas
Examples of Social VR
VirtualSpace, a novel system that allows overloading multiple users immersed in different VR experiences into the same physical space. VirtualSpace accomplishes this by containing each user in a subset of the physical space at all times, which we call tiles; app-invoked maneuvers then shuffle tiles and users across the entire physical space. This allows apps to move their users to where their narrative requires them to be while hiding from users that they are confined to a tile. We show how this enables VirtualSpace to pack four users into 16m2.
VirtualSpace: overloading Physical Space with Multiple Virtual Reality Users
Example: Facebook Spaces allows up to four Oculus Rift-wearing Facebook friends to create and customise avatars, based on profile pics. You can hang out in a 360-degree environment, chat via voice, take virtual selfies, draw 3D objects and interact with each other via waving, pointing and facial expressions – all done using the handheld Touch controllers. Facebook Spaces
JanusVR turns any webpage into its own three dimensional space where users can meet and explore with others. JanusVR re-imagines webpages as collaborative 3D webspaces interconnected by portals. Janus VR (was not great at the time of writing this, but it might now)
Human Values in Social Space
A person explains most of their actions by using their values. This explanation is called “giving a reason” for your action. And the ability to give reasons that make sense to other people (usually by referring to values) is called “being rational.” Human beings are so attached to being rational that they won’t do things for which they can anticipate not being able to give a reason. This hesitancy to do anything without a reason is what makes us predictable as individuals and makes society function. article 6: Human Values basics
Questions - What are meaningful ways of relating, acts and perspectives in your VR world? - Where do people find it easiest to practice this value, including difficult challenges? - What makes these spaces easier to achieve this value?
Addition information
Investigating Social Distances between Humans, Virtual Humans and Virtual Robots in Mixed Reality Psychophysiological Responses to Virtual Crowds and its Effects on Cognition A System for the Notation of Proxemic Behavior
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