Fact Sheet:
Founding Date
December 9, 2019
Funding Date
October 1, 2021
Website
Social Media
Descriptions:
Beyond Meetspace is research collective interested in the future of work and play beyond the limitations of physical space. Thus far work has been centered on the various roles of virtual reality (VR). We are presently funded by an NSF Future of Work grant to identify the role VR can play in hybrid and remote work for video game developers.
Overview
This project seeks to increase the well-being (e.g., reduced virtual meeting fatigue) and equity (e.g., equal speaking contributions) for workers by conducting a divserse mixed-method analysis of remote work and VR usage.
Project One
Project one utilized the former Academic API for Twitter to pull millions of tweets related to remote work and virtual reality. These pulls have fed multiple manuscripts in various states of completion that use natural langauge processing to identify key terminology and ideas. These ideas produce independent research and support other projects for this grant and broader projects for this team.
Project Two
Large survey to explore virtual meeting features' statistical association.
Project Three
Worker interviews to contextualize Studies 1 + 2.
Project Four
Video virtual meeting experiment to test hypotheses derived from Studies 1-3.
Project Five
Prototype virtual reality meeting platform to embody adn validate Studies 1-4 insights.
Narrative:
Pre-Grant
Coming Soon!
Peri-Grant
Coming Soon!
Post-Grant
Coming Soon!
Videos:
NSF Introductory Video
"Getting Versed in the Metaverse" - Dr. Rabindra Ratan, PBAIF 9/24/22
Images:
This is a render of the spawn area for the VR Meeting World.
This is a render of the Colloseum that houses the meeting space.
This is a top down view of the full island.
This is a view of the meeting space.
Dr. Brian Winn and students from the GEL Lab at MSU who are working on the VR platform.
The GEL Lab updating the research team on their progress.
Branding:
Logo
Fonts
Header: Bowlby One SC
Body: Outfit
Colors
c1: #e51147;
c2: #004a82;
c3: #18134e;
c4: #edeae8;
c5: #291b2f;