Personal Space in Social VR
Interpersonal distance, teleporting, flying, HMD use, desktop use, and collaboration comfort in virtual environments.
Research Archive
Social VR Research Themes
A lightweight archive of workshop themes derived from the original call for participation and accepted submissions.
Workshop Topics
Social Cues
Conversation openings, eye contact, hand gestures, head movement, and missing cues in current Social VR systems.
VE Designs
Designing collaborative virtual environments that are useful, safe, aesthetically coherent, and not distracting.
Social VR Technologies
Capturing, reconstruction, rendering, quality of interaction, and privacy protection for better Social VR experiences.
Evaluation Protocols
Subjective and objective ways to evaluate Social VR communication, including self-reports, sensors, and QoE metrics.
Interaction Techniques for Social VR
Interaction methods that either replicate real-world behavior or extend beyond physical-world constraints.
Submission Archive
Evolution of Input Devices for VR Collaboration Apps
A position paper on how tracked hands, stylus input, and other devices can support collaboration inside virtual reality applications.
VR collaboration apps, input devices, tracked interaction
The Tension Between Safety and Self-Expression in Adolescent Use of Social XR
A discussion of safety controls, supervision, self-expression, and the social risks that can appear when adolescents adopt Social XR platforms.
Social XR safety, adolescents, moderation, self-expression
Spatial Sound Concepts for F-Formations in Social VR
A paper exploring how spatial sound can support group formations, orientation, and natural communication in Social VR.
spatial audio, F-formations, group interaction
Quality of Experience (QoE) Evaluation of Locomotion Methods on Desktop Virtual Reality: Comfort, Effort and Enjoyment
An evaluation of desktop VR locomotion methods with attention to comfort, effort, enjoyment, and accessibility for remote virtual activities.
QoE, locomotion, desktop VR, comfort
Proxemics in Virtual Reality: What Should We Put to the Test in Social VR?
A position paper on personal distance, comfort boundaries, and the research questions that proxemics raises in shared virtual environments.
proxemics, personal space, interpersonal distance
Social VR Experimental Studies as Part of Remote VR Teaching: Two Case Studies
Two case studies showing how Social VR experimental studies can become part of remote VR teaching and embodied interaction design education.
remote teaching, Social VR studies, embodied interaction
Increasing Embodiment for Desktop-Based Participants in Mixed Desktop and Immersive Collaborative Virtual Environments
A paper focused on increasing embodiment for desktop users who join collaborative environments alongside immersive VR participants.
embodiment, desktop VR, mixed participation
Bodystorming in Social VR to Support Collaborative Embodied Ideation
A position paper on using bodystorming in Social VR to support collaborative embodied ideation, movement, and creative design work.
bodystorming, embodied ideation, collaboration
The Role of High-fiving for Sustaining Engagement in Social VR Experiences
A submission about high-fiving as a lightweight embodied gesture for engagement in Social VR. The archived source file appears to be unavailable in the provided crawl.
Note: Archived source file appears to be a Wix error page rather than a readable PDF.
engagement, gestures, embodied interaction
Respecting Social Norms in Virtual Environments
A discussion of social conventions, inappropriate behavior, trolling, and unintended violations of social norms inside virtual environments.
social norms, behavior, safety, virtual environments
The “me” in the “we”: Investigating subjectivity and the effect of group size & similarity in VR
A position paper on subjectivity, coordination, similarity, and how group size may affect shared VR experiences.
subjectivity, group size, similarity, coordination
Same Place, Different Space: Designing for Differing Physical Spaces in Social Virtual Reality
A paper on designing social VR spaces that can handle different real-world physical spaces across users.
physical spaces, virtual space mapping, Social VR design
Toward Understanding the Social and Societal Implications of Avatar Designs in Social VR
A paper examining avatar design and its implications for social interaction, identity, and societal effects in Social VR.
avatar design, social implications, identity
Tempting and Enforcing as Paradigms for the Design of Social Interactions in Social VR
A position paper proposing tempting and enforcing as design paradigms for shaping social interactions in VR systems.
interaction design, social events, VR behavior
Effectiveness of Social Virtual Reality
A paper discussing how to evaluate the effectiveness of Social VR beyond isolated behaviours and toward longer-term social use.
effectiveness, co-presence, trust, evaluation
Social Superpowers in Social VR: Beyond Approximation of Face-to-face
A paper arguing that Social VR should not only imitate face-to-face interaction but also enable new forms of social capability.
social superpowers, face-to-face, interaction possibilities
Claiming One’s Physical Resources for Action in VR
A position paper on harassment, embodiment, personal space, and the ability to claim physical resources for action in VR.
harassment, embodiment, personal space, agency