Embodied Notes: A Cognitive Support Tool For Remote Scientific Collaboration in VR

Abstract

Scientists collaborate remotely across institutions, countries and continents. However, collaborating remotely is challenging. Video-conferencing tools used for meetings limit the cognitive practices that collaborators can partake in. In virtual reality (VR) users can gain back some of the spatial and social affordances present in collocated collaboration, as well as benefit from interactions that would not be possible in the real world. We introduce Embodied Notes: a cognitive support tool designed to be used in a collaborative virtual environment.