Impacts of Update Frequency on User Experience in Collaborative Virtual Environments

Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) are shared virtual spaces that allow geographically distributed users to interact with each other and collaborate on various tasks. To deliver a realistic user experience, CVEs applications need to frequently send update messages containing information about shared objects to other peers. In this paper, we carry out a subjective experiment to investigate the impact of update frequency on user experience in a Collaborative Virtual Environment. The findings from this study can help in designing an effective CVEs system.