Gamifying Kindness: Toward a Praxis of the Ephemeral

Schänzel, Demi; Taylor-Giles, Leanne C.; Turner, Jane

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81538-7_4

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“…Unlike games, though, the therapeutic design should consider that some users might not be able to exercise necessary traits such as imagination (Setlak, 2022) due to trauma impact, and so the design might need to be adjusted to categories such as activeness and flexibility. It is actually most beneficial if various perspectives are acquired in order to show events from different angles and let the immersed "construct their own meaning" (Koenitz et al, 2022, p. 226) while escaping from traditional, heroic narrative features and working on specific personal experiences such as the experience of kindness in another instance (Schänzel et al, 2022). In fact, reliving an event can have a profoundly therapeutic influence if it is experienced in a significantly better way after the endured hardship or if it elicits an exactly contrary feeling that would lead to an acceptance and overruling of the past.…”

Section: Self-reconstruction Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrative self-recreation in virtual reality

Georgieva¹,

Georgiev²

2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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The narrative essence of human nature is that humans are storytellers, and this ability helps to constitute our identities. Challenges that disrupt this innate ability are adverse events that affect the human perception of the world and undermine the meaning one finds in reality. Such events might range from short-term stressors to long-term testing conditions such as pandemics. Tools for overcoming these negative effects and for achieving self-preservation might be sought in individual storytelling abilities in relation to self-constitution and identification. An example of an interactive digital narrative medium that provides a platform for such expression of complex issues is virtual reality (VR), which has been used as a visual narrative storytelling tool for decades. This study sets the notion of trauma in a new light, as a break in the individual story used to explain one’s life and as a story to be intertwined with and re-adapted to one’s overall lifetime. In the healthcare context, this experience can be most effectively presented in VR because it offers added meaning, potential choices, closure, and resolution as methods of utilization. Therefore, VR can be seen not only as a medium whereby traumatic events can be processed but also as an alternative viewpoint of the goal of self-(re)creation. This research discusses a theoretical proposal for ways of playing with self-construction mechanisms in the context of an immersive VR environment to create more opportunities to change one’s narrative and, hence, one’s real-life story.

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Section: Self-reconstruction Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%