Social VR Research

This project explores building social VR technology to improve networked meetings. VR shows promise as a technology for supporting remote meetings in new ways because it puts team members in a shared media space, which allows for familiar communication tactics. This project focuses on design and development of social VR tools to improve face-to-face meetings by helping participants time manage, come to decisions, stick to an agenda, and achieve social connection and support for ideas. These innovations seek to make online meetings more effective and satisfying. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2007627 and No. 2007755