BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Virtual Real.
Sec. Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frvir.2025.1563866
This article is part of the Research TopicVirtual and Robotic EmbodimentView all 6 articles
Psychological evaluation of a virtual connected room from the perspective of we-mode
Provisionally accepted
Yuki Harada1*
Yoshihiro Sato1Ayumi Kambara1Kazuo Oki1Ryo Takahashi1Nobuyuki Utsumi2Ryohei Tsuji3
Yoshimichi Sato1- 1Kyoto University of Advanced Science (KUAS), Kyoto, Japan
- 2Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 3Kindai University, Higashi-osaka, Ōsaka, Japan
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A potential factor for video-meetings that negatively influences users' psychological aspects is the reduction of the we-mode. The we-mode refers to a cognitive state in which team members share mental states, allowing them to coordinate actions based on each other's conditions and enhance joint performance. To address this reduction, we developed a prototype video-meeting system (virtual connected room) designed to enhance the presence of users as if they were in the same room. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a virtual connected room from the perspective of the we-mode. In the experiment, a pair of participants performed three tasks in face-to-face, virtual connected, and display-based remote conditions. We used the referential communication task to evaluate the efficiency of communications and the joint Simon and number judgement tasks to evaluate the we-mode.The results showed that the virtual connected condition influenced the responses of joint Simon and number judgment, but did not influence the performance of the referential communication task. These results suggest that the virtual connected room promotes the we-mode.
Keywords: video-meeting, we-mode, co-representation, joint Simon effect, spontaneous visual taking
Received: 20 Jan 2025; Accepted: 05 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Harada, Sato, Kambara, Oki, Takahashi, Utsumi, Tsuji and Sato. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Yuki Harada, Kyoto University of Advanced Science (KUAS), Kyoto, Japan
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