Effects of Heart Rate Feedback on an Asymmetric Platform using Augmented Reality and Laptop

Abstract

Asymmetric systems enable remote collaboration using multiple different devices. In this paper, we have designed an asymmetric system that enables collaboration between Augmented Reality (AR) and Laptop users. Remote collaboration systems often lack mutual emotional understanding between the collaborators. Researchers in virtual reality have used physiological data sharing as a way to increase social awareness between collaborators. No such effort was made in AR and in asymmetric domains. A key contribution of this work is that we have enabled physiological (heart rate) feedback sharing between the collaborators to generate more awareness about one another in an asymmetric system. We executed a user study with 20 participants where they performed a collaborative and a competitive task. Our results indicated that providing heart rate feedback is beneficial for AR devices. We noticed the experimental tasks had an effect on galvanic skin response although no such effect was found on heart rate signal.