Continuities and Discontinuities in Ethical Reflections on Digital Virtual Reality

Horsfield, Peter

doi:10.1080/08900523.2003.9679662

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“…Access to VR is repeatedly speculated as an ethical concern [35,40]. Our results correspond with this concern.…”

Section: Accessibilitysupporting

confidence: 88%

“…They stated that because VR can create 'virtually real experiences' [36], users of VR quickly identify themselves with the virtual arms or virtual heartbeat that they can hear [37][38][39]. This illusion of embodiment could result in loss of self-identity by alienating users from their own body, and a loss of connection to the real world, which could negatively affect behavior in real life [40]. In the VR application we tested, this ability to change the way people phenomenologically experience their bodies is intentionally used to lower experiences of chronic pain.…”

Section: Self-perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Participants commented that their experiences of chronic pain often negatively affected their feelings of physical safety. Previously, Horsfield [40] illustrated that the virtual world could enable people to experience greater safety by their daily pain. The second set of interviews illustrated that value frameworks are mediated once VR is used.…”

Section: Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Horsfield [40] speculated that the virtual world is a place of hope. It can provide hope that daily life could be lived without pain.…”

Section: Hopementioning

confidence: 99%

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Evaluating value mediation in patients with chronic low-back pain using virtual reality: contributions for empirical research in Value Sensitive Design

Smits¹,

Goor²,

Kallewaard

et al. 2022

Health Technol.

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Value Sensitive Design (VSD) is the most well-known method to consider values in design. It consists of three iterative phases of investigation: conceptual, empirical, and technical. Although the approach is promising, the role of empirical research remains unclear. We address two opportunities for extending the role of empirical research in VSD. First, we argue that empirical research enables us to identify values in context. Second, we explain that empirical research enables us to anticipate how technology mediates the values of users. We make our point by means of an empirical study in a real-life controlled experimental context into the value mediation of virtual reality (VR) in patients with chronic low-back pain. Using value-oriented semi-structured interviews with twenty patients, we first analyze what values these patients consider important, and how the values are experienced. The second set of interviews held after all patients used VR four weeks at home, aims to provide insight into value changes as mediated by VR. We end the article by a comparison of our empirical results with previous, often speculative, literature into values in VR. We show that empirical research benefits the VSD process by providing in-depth insight into the effects of context and technology on values and the ability to translate these insights into recommendations for more responsible design and implementation of the technology.

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“…Access to VR is repeatedly speculated as an ethical concern [35,40]. Our results correspond with this concern.…”

Section: Accessibilitysupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Self-perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Safetymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Horsfield [40] speculated that the virtual world is a place of hope. It can provide hope that daily life could be lived without pain.…”

Section: Hopementioning

confidence: 99%

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Evaluating value mediation in patients with chronic low-back pain using virtual reality: contributions for empirical research in Value Sensitive Design

Smits¹,

Goor²,

Kallewaard

et al. 2022

Health Technol.

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“…In contrast, the ethical use of 360-degree VR film making has shown the transformative potentials for youth to tell their stories, channelling the immersive potential of VR to create empathy for the marginalised (Mikelli and Dawkins 2020). Historically, moral questions that are raised about VR were similarly asked about older media which play with the real books, photography, cinema, radio, and televisionwhich can be used ethically or unethically (Horsfield 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

Immersive virtual reality (VR) for digital media making: transmediation is key

Mills

Brown

2021

Learning, Media and Technology

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The rapid evolution of virtual reality (VR) technologies and their adoption for learning opens up new possibilities for shifting semiotic content across modes, with underexplored scope for transmediating content in visual, haptic, and auditory ways in immersive media literacy practices. This research investigated users' creative digital designing involving a popular, three-dimensional virtual painting program with upper elementary students who used a VR head mounted display and sensors. The analysis attended to how students transmediated the same story across written, verbal, and virtual painting modes, tracing key themes of the students' virtual experience: (i) immersion and three-dimensionality, (ii) subjective presence, (iii) sensory illusion, and (iv) interactivity with motion tracking. Students reassembled and shifted narrative content, sometimes seamlessly, while experiencing ambiguity and complexity about three-dimensional representation in an immersive world. Producing stories across modes invited adaptation and generative thinking to overcome the lack of equivalence between writing, drawing, and virtual painting modes.

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Ethics of Virtual Reality

López

2023

The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology

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Continuities and Discontinuities in Ethical Reflections on Digital Virtual Reality

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Evaluating value mediation in patients with chronic low-back pain using virtual reality: contributions for empirical research in Value Sensitive Design

Evaluating value mediation in patients with chronic low-back pain using virtual reality: contributions for empirical research in Value Sensitive Design

Immersive virtual reality (VR) for digital media making: transmediation is key

Ethics of Virtual Reality

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