Bovo, Riccardo;
Giunchi, Daniele;
Costanza, Enrico;
Steed, Anthony;
Heinis, Thomas;
(2022)
Mitigation strategies for participant non-attendance in VR remote collaborative experiments.
Frontiers in Computer Science
, 4
, Article 928269. 10.3389/fcomp.2022.928269.
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Abstract
COVID-19 led to the temporary closure of many HCI research facilities disrupting many ongoing user studies. While some studies could easily move online, this has proven problematic for virtual reality (VR) studies. The main challenge of remote VR study is the recruitment of participants who have access to specialized hardware such as head-mounted displays. This challenge is exacerbated in collaborative VR studies, where multiple participants need to be available and remotely connect to the study simultaneously. We identify the latter as the worst-case scenario regarding resource wastage and frustration. Across two collaborative user studies, we identified the personal connection between the experimenter and the participant as a critical factor in reducing non-attendance. We compare three recruitment strategies that we have iteratively developed based on our recent experiences. We introduce a metric to quantify the cost for each recruitment strategy, and we show that our final strategy achieves the best metric score. Our work is valuable for HCI researchers recruiting participants for collaborative VR remote studies, but it can be easily extended to every remote experiment scenario.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Mitigation strategies for participant non-attendance in VR remote collaborative experiments |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fcomp.2022.928269 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2022.928269 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2022 Bovo, Giunchi, Costanza, Steed and Heinis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
| Keywords: | collaborative experiment, non-attendance, virtual reality (VR), cost function, recruitment procedures |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > UCL Interaction Centre UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10156724 |
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