A5097424607- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Digital Games and Media
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Educational Games and Gamification
- Team Dynamics and Performance
University of Notre Dame
2024
The rapid evolution of social Virtual Reality (VR) platforms has significantly enhanced the way users interact and socialize in digital spaces, offering immersive experiences that closely mimic real-world interactions [1]. However, this technological advancement brought new challenges, particularly ensuring safety preventing harassment [11]. Unlike traditional media platforms, nature VR applications can intensify impact harassment, affecting users' emotions, experiences, reactions at both...
Seeking novel approaches to understand and mitigate emerging understudied new harms in immersive embodied social spaces is a critically needed HCI CSCW research agenda for achieving safer online environments the future. In this work, we present discuss results from CHI 2024 workshop which 26 experts engaged speculative dystopian design fiction activity. Through structured exercise, our participants collectively created six fictions along four main themes highlighting shared concerns problem...
As more people meet, interact, and socialize online, Social Virtual Reality (VR) emerges as a promising technology that can bridge the gap between traditional face-to-face online communication. Compared to screen-based applications, VR provides immersive, physical, three-dimensional social interactions, making it communication tool for enhancing collaborations. Despite growing interest research in VR, how has supported collaborations teamwork not been explored depth. To map existing this...