Opportunities With Uncertainties: The Outlook of Virtual Reality in the Early Stages of Design

Hu, Xinhui; Georgiev, Georgi V.

doi:10.35199/icdc.2020.27

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“…This type of hybrid reality is a form of augmented reality in which the real elements and the virtual elements are able to interact with one another, thereby granting the user the ability to interact with both real and virtual objects [ 53 , 54 , 55 ]. Further development of digital technologies may even allow for the projection of three-dimensional holograms in real space and user interaction with projected digital controllers as needed.…”

Section: Types Of Virtual Realitymentioning

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Virtual Reality for Neurorehabilitation and Cognitive Enhancement

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Our access to computer-generated worlds changes the way we feel, how we think, and how we solve problems. In this review, we explore the utility of different types of virtual reality, immersive or non-immersive, for providing controllable, safe environments that enable individual training, neurorehabilitation, or even replacement of lost functions. The neurobiological effects of virtual reality on neuronal plasticity have been shown to result in increased cortical gray matter volumes, higher concentration of electroencephalographic beta-waves, and enhanced cognitive performance. Clinical application of virtual reality is aided by innovative brain–computer interfaces, which allow direct tapping into the electric activity generated by different brain cortical areas for precise voluntary control of connected robotic devices. Virtual reality is also valuable to healthy individuals as a narrative medium for redesigning their individual stories in an integrative process of self-improvement and personal development. Future upgrades of virtual reality-based technologies promise to help humans transcend the limitations of their biological bodies and augment their capacity to mold physical reality to better meet the needs of a globalized world.

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“…The underlying mechanism of empathy and self requires clarification. Overall, empathy encompasses five dimensions: affective, cognitive, somatic, emotional, and compassionate empathy; however, the kinds of empathy triggered by VR remain unclear (Hu and Georgiev, 2020).…”

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“…As reported, ambivalent emotional reactions are caused by various perspective-taking strategies and the unclear effects of virtual avatar embodiment. However, we can utilize an ergonomic strategy based on replicating users' surroundings, multisensory embodiment, and interaction data (Hu and Georgiev, 2020). Based on a deeper understanding of the empathy process, future research should cover all creative enhancement structures.…”

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Design-thinking skill enhancement in virtual reality: A literature study

Lyu

Watanabe

Umemura

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Front. Virtual Real.

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As a methodology, design thinking involves practicing “a way of thinking” that non-designers can use as a source of inspiration instead being limited to a group of professional designers. This methodology has gained research attention because of the growing demands for social innovation and sustainability. The general public is expected to gain design-thinking skills through training or by applying design-thinking tools. Virtual reality (VR) is considered a potential tool to help accelerate augmenting design-thinking skills because it allows users to have embodied and immersive experiences. This study reviews existing literature on how VR has been used to enhance design-thinking skills. The general features of the publications such as the year of publication, design-thinking stages, VR types, targeted participants, and publication fields are analyzed for determining the latest trends and scenarios under this research topic. Further, a thematic analysis that follows creative enhancement structures is conducted to understand the role of VR in enhancing design-thinking skills, and future research directions are discussed based on the results. The review concludes that VR has the potential to enhance creativity in many aspects. Moreover, it highlights the need of gaining deeper understanding about 1) art, humanities, and societal perspectives; 2) cognition processes in VR; 3) emphasizing and defining stages in the design-thinking process; 4) technological improvements combined with the Metaverse; and 5) hybrid of the virtual and real worlds.

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“…Hence, by replicating the scenarios experienced by the target users and immersing the designers in those environments, it is expected that the designers will develop perspectives similar to the users. Sharing similar experiences may be the easiest way to establish empathy between users and designers (Hu and Georgiev, 2020).…”

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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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Opportunities With Uncertainties: The Outlook of Virtual Reality in the Early Stages of Design

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Virtual Reality for Neurorehabilitation and Cognitive Enhancement

Virtual Reality for Neurorehabilitation and Cognitive Enhancement

Design-thinking skill enhancement in virtual reality: A literature study

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

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