Leadership and Collaboration in Shared Virtual Environments

We present an experiment that investigates the behaviour of small groups of participants in a wide-area distributed collaborative virtual environment (CVE). This is the third and largest study in a series of experiments that have examined trios of participants carrying out a highly collaborative puzzle-solving task. The results reproducing those of earlier studies suggest a positive relationship between place-presence and co-presence, between co-presence and group accord, with evidence supporting the notion that immersion confers leadership advantage.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: VR
• Authors: Anthony Steed, Mel Slater, Amela Sadagic, Adrian Bullock, Jolanda G. Tromp
• Keywords: Collaborative Puzzle-solving Task, Collaborative Virtual Environment, Immersion Confers Leadership, Virtual Reality, VR 1999