State of the art on immersive virtual reality and its use in developing meaningful empathy

Villalba, Éder Estrada; Azócar, Alejandra Lorena San Martín; Jacques-García, Fausto Abraham

doi:10.1016/j.compeleceng.2021.107272

Cited by 22 publications

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“…A meta-analysis by Ventura et al (2020) found that VR experiences have positive effects on enhancing empathy by providing a sense of presence and embodiment, while Martingano et al (2021) reported that VR experience only elicits affective empathy but not cognitive empathy. Moreover, Villalba et al (2021) highlighted that VR could increase engagement, empathic concern, and perspective-taking more effectively than traditional methods, whereas Martingano et al (2021) reported that VR could arouse compassionate feelings but not encourage users to imagine other people's perspectives. The lack of consensus about the impact of virtual reality on empathy is likely attributable to how the interaction in virtual environments is designed.…”

Section: Virtual Reality and Empathymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging Designer-User Gap With a Virtual Reality-Based Empathic Design Approach: Contextual Information Details

Casakin

Georgiev

2023

Proc. Des. Soc.

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Without shared experiences, empathy gaps between designers and users are difficult to bridge. Advancing Virtual Reality (VR) has shed new light on this regard by enabling designers to simulate and experience their users' living scenarios in a virtual environment (VE). However, implementing VR-based empathetic design approach requires dealing with critical design questions, such as: (1) whether VR operators can develop empathy for unfamiliar user groups solely based on objective experience and (2) whether VR operators can utilize task-irrelevant contextual information in the VEs. To explore these issues, we designed an experiment based on two VEs with varying levels of detail that simulated the scenes viewed by people with red-green color vision deficiency (CVD). Participants were randomly assigned to either detail-rich or detail-simple VEs to complete neutral item-searching tasks. Results indicate that objective and neutral experience alone cannot elicit empathy towards users, and VR operating designers will utilize task-irrelevant contextual information.

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Section: Virtual Reality and Empathymentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging Designer-User Gap With a Virtual Reality-Based Empathic Design Approach: Contextual Information Details

Casakin

Georgiev

2023

Proc. Des. Soc.

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“…For instance, some activities that result in immersive cultural appreciation, social connectedness, or giving new ways for users to self-reflect and self-improve can make VR interaction meaningful to users (Maloney & Freeman, 2020). Additionally, VR is known to be successful in creating elevating, emotionally moving, and emphatic experiences, which are other eudaimonic concepts (Daneels, Bowman, et al, 2021;Felnhofer et al, 2015;Villalba et al, 2021). Feeling of awe is also considered an aspect of eudaimonic experiences, and VR can elicit awe with its visually all-encompassing nature (Chirico et al, 2016(Chirico et al, , 2017.…”

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The additive effects of interactivity, immersion, and eudaimonia for stress reduction and mood management: A randomized controlled study on games and virtual reality.

Kosa,

Johnson-Glenberg

2023

Psychology of Popular Media

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“…[15] further propounds this sentiment as it posits that perspective taking is more effective than providing data to feel empathy, and that virtual reality can increase engagement and empathy concern and perspective taking. However, they claim that there is much more evaluation needed and to date there is insufficient evidence to show that perspective-taking virtual reality (PTVR) is an effective method for developing empathy [15]. In light of this, much research on VR as a training resource is still required [14], especially relating to neurodiversity.…”

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An Empathetic Approach to Human-Centric Requirements Engineering Using Virtual Reality

Chong,

Chu,

Nadonza

et al. 2023

2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

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People who use software applications are different, including with significant cognitive differences such as neurodiversity. Capturing requirements for software that addresses these cognitive differences is hard for software engineers, especially when they do not have the same cognitive challenges. We wanted to explore the use of virtual reality (VR) in assisting software engineers to better understand the perspectives of the end user for the purpose of human-centric requirements elicitation, with a focus on users with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We developed an immersive VR prototype using a virtual gym environment and fitness app as a concrete motivating example scenario. We carried out an evaluation of requirements identification for ADHD fitness app users by instructing participants to complete activities whilst under visual and auditory distractions similar to various documented symptoms of ADHD. Results indicated an increase in understanding the perspectives of someone with ADHD and an awareness of potential challenges with software not intentionally designed for ADHD users. Improved requirements for our target fitness app resulted that better take into account these diverse user needs.

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State of the art on immersive virtual reality and its use in developing meaningful empathy

Cited by 22 publications

References 17 publications

Bridging Designer-User Gap With a Virtual Reality-Based Empathic Design Approach: Contextual Information Details

Bridging Designer-User Gap With a Virtual Reality-Based Empathic Design Approach: Contextual Information Details

The additive effects of interactivity, immersion, and eudaimonia for stress reduction and mood management: A randomized controlled study on games and virtual reality.

An Empathetic Approach to Human-Centric Requirements Engineering Using Virtual Reality

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