The Effects of Co-Location and Task Dependency in a Collaborative Multiplayer Virtual Reality Environment: A Study of Social Presence and Collision Behaviour
Translated title
The Effects of Co-Location and Task Dependency in a Collaborative Multiplayer Virtual Reality Environment
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2023
Submitted on
2023-06-09
Pages
62
Abstract
This thesis seeks to investigate the impact of co-location and task dependency in terms of co-presence, attentional allocation, perceived behavioral interdependence and collision avoidance. A mixed factorial design, incorporating both a within-subject and a between-subject design study including 32 subjects was used to form the conclusion. Collision avoidance and most of the sub-categories of social presence showed no significant differences between the conditions according to the Wilcoxon Signed Rank test, however, some conditions indicated that a significant difference existed, specifically: attentional allocation in the co-located distributed vs non co-located distributed condition. The co-located shared vs co-located distributed condition and the co-located shared vs non co-located shared condition indicated significant differences existed between them in terms of perceived behavioral interdependence. Similarly, collision avoidance did not show significant differences between any of the conditions. In conclusion, co-location and task dependency did not prove to have a significant effect overall when comparing the four conditions.
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