Audio Matters Too: How Audial Avatar Customization Enhances Visual Avatar Customization

Kao, Dominic; Ratan, Rabindra; Mousas, Christos; Joshi, Amogh; Melcer, Edward F.

doi:10.1145/3491102.3501848

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“…For example, HCI research often gendered as masculine (e.g., boardgames [117] or e-sports [139]) or feminine (e.g., fertility [43] or makeup [138]) routinely describes the omission of LGBTQ+ people as a limitation of their work. Some mentioned using -and having to justify using -datasets or technologies that only include binary genders, such as voice technology [31,194] and video-gamecharacter-creation tools [49,120,122]. A large body of research, while acknowledging the limitations of their methods, used a binary gender measure to explore gender biases or inequity among researchers themselves [35,68] and in algorithmic [7,17,227] and CSCW [64,74,212] systems.…”

Section: Becoming a Limitation Or Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cruising Queer HCI on the DL: A Literature Review of LGBTQ+ People in HCI

Taylor,

Simpson,

Tran

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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LGBTQ+ people have received increased attention in HCI research, paralleling a greater emphasis on social justice in recent years. However, there has not been a systematic review of how LGBTQ+ people are researched or discussed in HCI. In this work, we review all research mentioning LGBTQ+ people across the HCI venues of CHI, CSCW, DIS, and TOCHI. Since 2014, we find a linear growth in the number of papers substantially about LGBTQ+ people and an exponential increase in the number of mentions. Research about LGBTQ+ people tends to center experiences of being politicized, outside the norm, stigmatized, or highly vulnerable. LGBTQ+ people are typically mentioned as a marginalized group or an area of future research. We identify gaps and opportunities for (1) research about and (2) the discussion of LGBTQ+ in HCI and provide a dataset to facilitate future Queer HCI research.

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Section: Becoming a Limitation Or Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cruising Queer HCI on the DL: A Literature Review of LGBTQ+ People in HCI

Taylor,

Simpson,

Tran

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Tachtler et al [196] provided a nuanced discussion about recruitment, noting that they had aimed but were unable to recruit a diverse sample, and considering valid reasons why, i.e., most unaccompanied migrant youth in and around their site were young men. Kao et al [103] argued that their selection of stereotypical "male" and "female" voiced avatars was meant to achieve ecological validity against the most common setups in real games, noting that "a binary view of gender is problematic" [103:7].…”

Section: Masculinity-centrism In Topics and Contexts Of Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Interacting with Masculinities: A Scoping Review

Seaborn

2023

Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Gender is a hot topic in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Work has run the gamut, from assessing how we embed gender in our computational creations to correcting systemic sexism, online and off. While gender is often framed around women and femininities, we must recognize the genderful nature of humanity, acknowledge the evasiveness of men and masculinities, and avoid burdening women and genderful folk as the central actors and targets of change. Indeed, critical voices have called for a shift in focus to masculinities, not only in terms of privilege, power, and patriarchal harms, but also participation, plurality, and transformation. To this end, I present a 30-year history of masculinities in HCI work through a scoping review of 126 papers published to the ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) conference proceedings. I offer a primer and agenda grounded in the CHI and extant literatures to direct future work.

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“…They mentioned several reasons for their suggestions, such as increasing the experience's immersion and increasing focus during the experiment. Many researchers have investigated this debation [140]. It is proven that audio in a game-like experience improves physiological responses and immersion [141,142,143,144,145].…”

Section: Voice Over Charactersmentioning

confidence: 99%

We Are Oulu: Exploring Situated Empathy through a Communal Virtual Reality Experience

Kiarostami

Visuri

Hosio

2022

2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)

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Equality among all humans, regardless of ethnicity, language, or nationality, is an essential topic in every community and society. Immigrants' hardships as foreigners in another community are issues that not only contrast with humans' equality but also cause irreparable damage to foreigners and society. Nowadays, Virtual Reality (VR) as an alluring technology is a promising approach to communicating people's hardship experiences in a simulated situation to enhance others' empathy. It has even been called the ultimate empathy machine.In this thesis, we developed a VR experience to showcase collected hardship experiences that the international community of the University of Oulu has faced during their studies and lives in Oulu to mainly local participants to explore their situated empathy. To this end, we first collected hardship stories and data from 40 members of the international community through an online questionnaire. The results highlight that social problems, language barriers, issues with bureaucracy, and racism are key issues in the community. Then, we developed and performed a VR experiment with 18 participants to let them read the hardship stories through simulated conversations and interactions with avatars in a virtual university environment. We asked our participants to respond to pre-and post-experiment questionnaires and participate in a semi-structured interview after the experiment. Analyzing questionnaire results indicated that after the experiment the average participant's responses to their knowledge and tendency to discuss the hardships increased by 1.05 and 1.11 on a 5-point scale, respectively. Likewise, their average responses comparing the international community's quality of life with themselves decreased by 0.77 on the 7-point scale, showing that they rated the international community's quality of life worse than they initially thought. The qualitative evaluation of participants' reflections yielded positive feedback on the VR experience's authenticity, the stories' plausibility, their increased situated empathy and awareness regarding the hardships, and VR as a promising technology in communicating these topics.Ultimately, the thesis contributes to collecting and understanding the hardship experiences of the international community of the University of Oulu. It demonstrates a feasible approach to enhancing empathy and awareness, and the experiment increased the participants' understanding of the University of Oulu's international community's hardships. Further, the thesis continues to add evidence to how VR is a promising approach to fostering empathy.

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Audio Matters Too: How Audial Avatar Customization Enhances Visual Avatar Customization

Cited by 18 publications

References 124 publications

Cruising Queer HCI on the DL: A Literature Review of LGBTQ+ People in HCI

Cruising Queer HCI on the DL: A Literature Review of LGBTQ+ People in HCI

Interacting with Masculinities: A Scoping Review

We Are Oulu: Exploring Situated Empathy through a Communal Virtual Reality Experience

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