Where's the Team Spirit? An Exploratory Study on Team Development Through Co-located Tablet-Based VR
Irina Paraschivoiu, Thomas Layer-Wagner, Klaus Neundlinger, Simone Rack, Markus Tatzgern
TLDR
This paper explores how a tablet-based asymmetric VR experience can enhance teamwork skills like communication and coordination through narrative-driven tasks.
Key contributions
- Designed a tablet-based asymmetric VR training experience for teamwork KSAs.
- Features spatial separation, tool asymmetry, and interdependent tasks requiring verbal coordination.
- Study showed users dynamically adapted and applied teamwork skills in VR.
- Provides design recommendations for effective immersive team training interventions.
Why it matters
This research offers a novel approach to team development using accessible VR technology. It demonstrates the potential of asymmetric, co-located VR to foster critical teamwork skills, providing practical design insights for future training tools.
Original Abstract
We explore how narrative-driven asymmetric VR experiences can support the development of teamwork-related knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs), such as communication, coordination, trust, and reflexivity. We present the design and evaluation of a tablet-based VR training experience structured around spatial separation, tool asymmetry, and interdependent tasks that require verbal coordination. The experience was designed based on interviews with HR professionals and mapped to a framework of established KSAs. We conducted a co-located user study (N=16) that involved two consecutive collaborative scenarios. Our findings show that users adapted dynamically using verbal exchange, role negotiation, and shared representations to coordinate under asymmetric conditions. We also observed active application of teamwork KSAs. Based on our insights, we present design recommendations for creating effective immersive team training interventions.
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