Collaborative Extended Reality: Research and Outlook

Extended Reality (XR) which includes Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality has been recognized as a powerful technology in the human-machine interface field to provide realistic and believable experiences for a user in an immersive world using real-time interaction through multiple sensory channels. Recent progress of the XR technology gives the Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) a potential and flexible tool of vividly representing data as well as users themselves in collaborative environments in which people can meet, communicate and interact with others, with data, 3D objects or artefacts although they may be geometrically far from each other, speak different languages and use heterogeneous computer systems. The success of a collaborative XR system is decided by many features: representing multiple users in the virtual world so they can be aware of each other; enabling natural and intuitive interactions between the users, and between them and systems; facilitating immersion of each user; facilitating multimodal and real-time communication; amongst many others. In this talk, I will discuss the research that we have been conducting to facilitate a smooth collaboration between multiple users using immersive technologies. I will particularly focus on interactive and immersive user interfaces that take into account human factors and user experience in the human-centred design.

Short bio

Huyen Nguyen is currently an Associate Professor at Paris-Saclay University in Orsay, France and a Researcher at the VENISE team in LISN/CNRS. Her academic background focuses on Collaborative Extended Reality, Immersive Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Human Factors in Collaborative Extended Reality. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Data61, CSIRO in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, working on the Global Initiative for Honey bee Health (GIHH) and focusing on Data Visualisation and Immersive Analytics in Collaborative Frameworks. She also worked as a postdoc at EPICentre, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia. She received her M.Sc. degree in Intelligent Systems and Multimedia from University of La Rochelle, France in 2011 and her Ph.D. degree in Virtual Reality and 3D User Interaction from INSA Rennes, France in 2014.

The event is hybrid, zoom link https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/67694473656?from=addon
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