Conversation Balance: A Shared VR Visualization to Support Remote Meetings

Since the spread of COVID-19, the world has pivoted to a remote working lifestyle, where people’s work lives are connected everyday through distributed technologies. This interactivity demonstration provides users with a visualization of their conversational turn-taking, within a shared Virtual Reality (VR) environment. It is intended to help support balanced communication in remote meetings. Project contributors include UCSC MS students Victor Jialang Li and Sean Fernandes, Ph.D. students Anya Osborne and Max Kreminski, undergraduate students Tara Lamb and Sarah Banks, as well as researchers working with SF State professor Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, including George Butler.