The theory of immersive collaborative learning (TICOL)

G Makransky, GB Petersen - Educational Psychology Review, 2023 - Springer
The need to virtually collaborate across distributed locations has drastically increased.
Developments such as the COVID-19 pandemic and new IT platforms like the metaverse …

Predicting and Understanding Turn-Taking Behavior in Open-Ended Group Activities in Virtual Reality

P Wang, E Han, A Queiroz, C DeVeaux… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In networked virtual reality (VR), user behaviors, individual differences, and group dynamics
can serve as important signals into future speech behaviors, such as who the next speaker …

Presence and Pronouns: An Exploratory Investigation into the Language of Social VR

C DeVeaux, DM Markowitz, E Han… - … of Language and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
As social virtual reality (VR) continues to grow as a medium for digital communication,
sustaining presence among communicators remains one of the main constructs that …

The Alt-Self: Investigating the Inclusivity of Self-Avatar Representations in Social VR

M Javier, S Wheeler, Q Ni, M Drivas, KG Wong… - … Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
While recent research in social VR have investigated user motivations and group
communication, there is a gap in understanding the challenge of digital self-representation …

Social VR: How Academics Can Use Social VR for Research and Education

B Beams - ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Immersive Pavilion, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While many VR demos involve two users or one using a virtual agent, few contemplate using
social VR. Many live demos at industry conferences do not adequately address the social …

[PDF][PDF] A Looking Glass into a Research Wonderland: 40 Years of Virtual Reality Scholarship Explicated via Natural Language Processing

DM Markowitz, JN Bailenson, DM Markowitz - osf.io
How has the field of Virtual Reality (VR) evolved and what type of research has made an
impact? We used natural language processing techniques and generative Artificial …