Processing Physiological Sensor Data in Near Real-Time as Social Signals for Their Use on Social Virtual Reality Platforms

Genz, Fabio ; Hufeld, Clemens und Kranzlmüller, Dieter (2022): Processing Physiological Sensor Data in Near Real-Time as Social Signals for Their Use on Social Virtual Reality Platforms. First International Conference on Extended Reality, XR Salento 2022, Lecce, Italy, 6-8 July 2022. De Paolis, Lucio Tommaso; Arpaia, Pasquale und Sacco, Marco (Hrsg.): In: Extended Reality First International Conference, XR Salento 2022, Lecce, Italy, July 6–8, 2022, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Bd. 13446 Cham, Switzerland: Springer. S. 44-62

Abstract

Social interactions increasingly shift to computer-mediated communication channels. Compared to face-to-face communication, their use suffers from a loss or distortion in the transmission of social signals, which are prerequisites of social interactions. Social virtual reality platforms offer users a variety of possibilities to express themselves verbally as well as non-verbally. Although these platforms take steps towards compensating the addressed communication gap, there is still high demand to ensure and further improve the correct transmission of social signals. To address this issue, we investigate the processing of physiological sensor data as social signals. This paper provides two major contributions: Firstly, a concept for processing physiological sensor data in near real-time as social signals. The concept enables the processing of physiological sensor data on an individual level as well as across all users. For both the individual user and the collective, single sensors or the data from the whole sensor cluster can be analysed, resulting in four ways of analysis. Secondly, we provide concrete suggestions for a software setup, based on an extensive analysis of available open source software, to support a potential future implementation of the proposed concept. The results of this work are highly relevant for social virtual reality platforms, especially since modern head-mounted displays are often already equipped with appropriate measurement sensors. Moreover, the results can also be transferred to numerous other media, applications and research fields concerned with processing physiological sensor data, which reinforces the provided added value.

• Dokumententyp: Konferenzbeitrag (Paper)
• Fakultät: Mathematik, Informatik und Statistik > Informatik
• Themengebiete: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke > 004 Informatik
• ISSN: 0302-9743
• Ort: Cham, Switzerland
• Sprache: Englisch