Dealing with Short-Term Absence in Extended Reality Remote Collaboration in the Context of Archeological Planning
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Master's thesis
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2021-12-13
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Human-Computer Interaction and Design
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SCI3020
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Master's Programme in ICT Innovation
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en
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104
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Archaeologists obtain and work with a large amount of data captured from archaeological sites. We assume a collaborative XR environment, where heterogeneous information about the excavation site is visualized, could improve the decision-making process when planning the next visit to the excavation site. Field research with archaeologists showed that interruptions during collaborative tasks are common, which is likely similar to most office environments. Current research related to collaborative XR environments does not address such issues. We believe that if collaborative XR is meant to become part of the future workplace, it has to address the problems arising from short-term absence. This Master thesis explores how short-term absence influences collaboration in synchronous distributed XR environments. We introduce the concept, purpose, and implementation of an absence agent to deal with short-term absence during collaborative tasks. We develop a collaborative XR environment to conduct a user study. The user study compares different designs of the absence agent. So far, due to an insufficient number of participants, we could not reliably determine a significance related to task performance or perception of presence.Description
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Nguyen, HuyenThesis advisor
Nieminen, Mika P.Keywords
extended reality, collaboration, short-term absence, agent, archaeology