collaborative sensemaking

Desktop and VR teams emphasized different parts of collaborative mind-map work

Ying Yang, Tim Dwyer, Zachari Swiecki, Benjamin Lee, Michael Wybrow, Maxime Cordeil, Teresa Wulandari, Bruce H. Thomas, Mark Billinghurst

Frontiers in Virtual Reality

Whether desktop and immersive virtual-reality workspaces support different patterns of information sharing and collaborative sensemaking. VR activity focused more on problem solving, whereas desktop activity focused more on organizing the mind map; the authors connect this contrast to embodied and interface affordances. System-specific tasks and post hoc interpretation do not prove an inherent advantage of either medium, and interface maturity may be entangled with immersion.