Identifying Cognitive and Creative Support Needs for Remote Scientific Collaboration using VR: Practices, Affordances, and Design Implications

Monsurat Olaosebikan, Claudia Aranda Barrios, Blessing Kolawole, Lenore Cowen, Orit Shaer
2022 Creativity and Cognition  
Remote scientific collaborations have been pivotal in generating scientific discoveries and breakthroughs that accelerate research in many fields. Emerging VR applications for remote work, which utilize commercially available head-mounted displays (HMDs), offer the promise to enhance collaboration, through spatial and embodied experiences. However, there is little evidence on how professionals in general, and scientists in particular, could use existing commercial VR applications to support
more » ... r cognitive and creative collaborative processes while exploring real-world data as part of day-to-day collaborative work. In this paper, we present findings from an empirical study with 14 coral reef scientists, examining This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs International 4.0 License.
doi:10.1145/3527927.3532797 fatcat:l2acu26ehvhwvowpsajfrkfqmi