Psychological Ownership in Teleinstructive Augmented Reality Workspaces

Psychological ownership over virtual and physical spaces in augmented reality can lead to tensions between collaborators, yet, there is still a significant challenge in understanding how psychological ownership manifests in shared AR and what that might mean for the inclusion of collaborative interaction mechanisms. Through an experimental instruction task with a teleAR system, we interviewed 16 participant pairs on their perceptions of ownership of virtual and physical spaces and how they thought their perceptions impacted their interaction within those spaces. Our findings indicate (1) how AR introduces new ideas around behavioral norms in spaces that are layered and (2) that the nature of the task itself, in this case one of instruction where collaborators have different levels of knowledge and the local worker is reliant on the remote expert, significantly affects the perceptions of ownership and therefore behavior norms.