Metaverse-Based Virtual Workspace to Support Team Collaboration in the Laboratory

Abstract

This research set out to discover how a virtual workplace based on the metaverse may facilitate communication and cooperation in a health informatics lab in an academic institution. Concurrent triangulation was used to analyze a survey of fourteen lab members. Personas representing the various kinds of lab members were created by organizing the qualitative survey results depending on the opportunity, capability, motivation, and behaviour (COM-B) model. To supplement the results of the survey, planned work hours were also statistically analyzed. The survey data was used to create four fictional characters who stand in for various kinds of remote workers. The many perspectives expressed by the participants on virtual work were mirrored in these avatars, which were also used to classify the most frequent comments. Only a small fraction of the potential cooperation possibilities were used, according to the work hours schedule sheet study.