Who Makes Your Heart Beat? What Makes You Sweat? Social Conflict in Virtual Reality for Educators

Lee, Minha; Kolkmeier, Jan; Heylen, Dirk; IJsselsteijn, Wijnand A.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.628246

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“…Physiological measures are also used to evaluate social interactions with VHs: heart rate (Garau, Slater, Pertaub and Razzaque, 2005;Lee, Kolkmeier, Heylen and Ijsselsteijn, 2021), electrodermal activity (Garau et al, 2005;Neyret et al, 2020), and electroencephalography (Neyret et al, 2020).…”

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Social Interaction With Agents and Avatars in Immersive Virtual Environments: A Survey

Kyrlitsias

Michael-Grigoriou

2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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Immersive virtual reality technologies are used in a wide range of fields such as training, education, health, and research. Many of these applications include virtual humans that are classified into avatars and agents. An overview of the applications and the advantages of immersive virtual reality and virtual humans is presented in this survey, as well as the basic concepts and terminology. To be effective, many virtual reality applications require that the users perceive and react socially to the virtual humans in a realistic manner. Numerous studies show that people can react socially to virtual humans; however, this is not always the case. This survey provides an overview of the main findings regarding the factors affecting the social interaction with virtual humans within immersive virtual environments. Finally, this survey highlights the need for further research that can lead to a better understanding of human–virtual human interaction.

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Section: Evaluating Social Interactions With Virtual Humansmentioning

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Social Interaction With Agents and Avatars in Immersive Virtual Environments: A Survey

Kyrlitsias

Michael-Grigoriou

2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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“…However, representational and behavioral features, specifically regarding representational and behavioral bias as a result of ethnic stereotypes, have not been addressed often, although some potential issues have been identified [14]. Additionally, a few recommendations for best practices have been formulated and the necessity of culturally appropriate VR has been stated (e.g., [15][16][17]). The majority of these recommendations focus on process-oriented factors, for example, working together with ethnic minority stakeholders when designing and developing VR-applications [15].…”

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Ethnic representation within virtual reality: a co-design study in a forensic youth care setting

Klein Schaarsberg,

van Dam,

Widdershoven

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BMC Digit Health

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Background Virtual reality (VR) is one of the most cutting-edge digital technologies currently used to extend and adapt mental health interventions. When designing therapeutic VR-applications, bias related to representational and behavioral features can be introduced. Specific bias, that could result from ethnic stereotyping, should be averted. However, structured debates and clear guidelines on how to deal with such bias are lacking. Objective In the current paper we describe our iterative, co-design process to develop an augmented version of a 360-degree VR-video that is used in the Street Temptations intervention. In this intervention, aimed at adolescents with disruptive behavior problems, the VR-video provides adolescents with an emotionally engaging situation and forms the basis of Street Temptations’ perspective-taking exercises. By presenting a detailed example of our VR developmental process, specifically focusing on ethnic representation in this virtual environment and related ethical aspects, we aim to positively contribute to the creation of ethically sound therapeutic VR-applications. Method We adopted an experience-based co-design approach. The process started by assembling professionals’ experiences with the original VR-video. Following, we conducted four co-design groups with adolescents, young adults, and professionals within the forensic youth care system, as experiential experts, to collaboratively develop an enhanced VR-scenario for the Street Temptations intervention. In total, ten adolescents, four young adults and four professionals participated. The co-design groups were alternated with sessions with a screenwriter, to reflect on the results of the co-design groups. In this way, we enabled continuous feedback on and design of the ameliorated scenario and let development and data collection reinforce each other. Results The most important adjustments that were brought forward included explicit incorporation of diversity, establishing a clear storyline for the scenario, keeping the content close to reality, casting actors in a way to avoid obvious stigmatization, and using only names for the characters that are commonly used across different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Discussion By presenting our developmental process, we give a detailed example of how to reflectively develop ethically sound therapeutic VR-content within a forensic youth care setting. We demonstrated that including stakeholders can help in preventing socially irresponsible and conceivably hurtful stereotypes. By describing the process in detail, we hope to contribute to the responsible use of technology within mental health care.

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“…In the following, we provide a summary of the two main themes relevant for this work, regarding perception of the VH and the perceived immersion during the interaction. A more extensive version of this analysis, also discussing the themes on cross-cultural differences in how the VH was perceived, as well as themes on the potential integrations of similar systems in real work environments can be found in our paper (M. Lee et al, 2021).…”

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“…In: International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Springer, pages 231-234; and M. Lee, J Kolkmeier, et al (2021)…”

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From Head Transform to Mind Transplant : Social Interactions in Mixed Reality

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Voice and video calls are part of most people's everyday life. These are examples of technology being used to mediate social interaction between humans. Virtual and augmented reality technologies (VR and AR) play an increasing role in new applications for mediated social interaction. VR and AR can be used to improve upon conventional communication technologies by creating an increased sense of being together in a shared (virtual) space. For interactions where user's physical surroundings are important, mixed reality (MR) can offer further improvements by integrating the physical world into the experience. Another addition can be artificial virtual humans that are controlled by the application, but that can be interacted with using language and gestures. Examples are VR training systems with intelligent virtual humans that allow for practicing skills such as effective negotiation or public speaking. MR telepresence systems allow for people to solve complex problems remotely that previously required physical presence.In this thesis, we have explored different and novel forms of mediated social interactions that are using these technologies. We have looked at how they could play out in the future, in a number of different contexts. These included (simulated) face-toface interactions with (virtual) humans, social conflict situations, as well as remote collaboration tasks with other humans. Besides interactions with artificial virtual humans, and interactions with virtual avatars that embody real humans, we have also explored the concept of interacting with humans that are embodying the mind of artificial actors.Most research was conducted in the form of lab studies, using working prototypes. We have employed qualitative and quantitative methods for evaluation, and a variety of measures across these studies. These measures included physiological responses, how participants perceived the interaction, how they perceived other interlocutors, their feeling of immersion and their perception of social presence with other actors.The varied findings across these studies are reflected upon through the lens of a conceptual, science-fiction-inspired telepresence system: the SoIC-TV. By developing this concept throughout the thesis, we illustrate how in the future, mediated interaction experience using MR technology might transform beyond what is familiar both from co-located and present technology-mediated interactions.

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Who Makes Your Heart Beat? What Makes You Sweat? Social Conflict in Virtual Reality for Educators

Cited by 5 publications

References 64 publications

Social Interaction With Agents and Avatars in Immersive Virtual Environments: A Survey

Social Interaction With Agents and Avatars in Immersive Virtual Environments: A Survey

Ethnic representation within virtual reality: a co-design study in a forensic youth care setting

From Head Transform to Mind Transplant : Social Interactions in Mixed Reality

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