We analyzed the design space of group navigation tasks in distributed virtual environments and present a framework consisting of techniques to form groups, distribute responsibilities, navigate together, and eventually split up again. To improve joint navigation, our work focused on an extension of the Multi-Ray Jumping technique that allows adjusting the spatial formation of two distributed users as part of the target specification process. The results of a quantitative user study showed that these adjustments lead to significant improvements in joint two-user travel, which is evidenced by more efficient travel sequences and lower task loads imposed on the navigator and the passenger. In a qualitative expert review involving all four stages of group navigation, we confirmed the effective and efficient use of our technique in a more realistic use-case scenario and concluded that remote collaboration benefits from fluent transitions between individual and group navigation.

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在一起：分布式虚拟环境中的组导航。

我们分析了分布式虚拟环境中的组导航任务的设计空间，并提出了一个框架，该框架由形成组，分配职责，一起导航并最终再次拆分的技术组成。为了改善联合导航，我们的工作重点是扩展多射线跳跃技术，该技术允许在目标指定过程中调整两个分布式用户的空间形成。定量用户研究的结果表明，这些调整导致两人联合出行显着改善，这可以通过更有效的出行顺序和对导航员和乘客施加的较低任务负荷来证明。在涉及组导航所有四个阶段的定性专家审查中，