Reflexive VR Storytelling Design Beyond Immersion: Facilitating Self-Reflection on Death and Loneliness

Abstract: This research examines the reflexive dimensions of cinematic virtual reality (CVR) storytelling. We created Anonymous, an interactive CVR piece that employs a reflexive storytelling method. This method is based on distancing effects and is used to elicit audience awareness and self-reflection about loneliness and death. To understand the audience’s experiences, we conducted in-depth interviews to study which design factors and elements prompted reflexive thoughts and feelings. Our findings highlight how the audience experience was impacted by four reflexive dimensions: abstract and minimal aesthetics, everyday materials and textures, the restriction of control, and multiple, disembodied points of view. We use our findings to discuss how these dimensions can inform the design of VR storytelling experiences that provoke self and social reflection.

02/02/2021

virtual reality, vr, user studies, in-vr questionnaires, invrqs, break in presence, surveys, biosignals, research methods

9:46

04/07/2020

clusters, communities, discussions, embeddings, groups, health, mental health, reddit, spaces, tools, word embeddings, words

2:42

22/09/2020

Emily Tseng, Rosanna Bellini, Nora McDonald and
Matan Danos, Rachel Greenstadt, Damon McCoy, Nicola Dell, Thomas Ristenpart

cases, causal, changes, clusters, communities, factors, health, health communities, interventions, language style, languages, mental health, questions, style

9:29

25/04/2020

attention, distinct, engagement, factors, health, interactions, large_scale, mental health, rates, reddit, retention rates, sentiment

10:01

16/11/2020

Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media, Human computer interaction, social media tools, navigation and visualization, Subjectivity in textual data, sentiment analysis, polarity/opinion identification and extraction, linguistic analyses of soc

7:05

25/04/2020

domestic violence, intimate partner violence, family violence, third-sector, domestic violence prevention programmes, batterers intervention programmes, interactive storytelling

14:49

25/04/2020

4chan, cases, communities, discussions, events, languages, politically incorrect, toxicity, types

2:56

07/06/2021

Studies of digital humanities (culture, history, arts) using social media, Qualitative and quantitative studies of social media

9:02

04/07/2020

communities, connections, echo chambers, engagement, feedback, networks, shared

8:48

25/04/2020

Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Susanne Putze, Michael Bonfert and
Sebastian Höffner, Pitt Michelmann, Dirk Wenig, Rainer Malaka, Jan Smeddinck

On the Utility of Audiovisual Dialog Technologies and Signal Analytics for Real-time Remote Monitoring of Depression Biomarkers

portrait, face, animation, reenactment, deformation, semantic, segmentation, fidelity, cross-identity, cross-domain

1:01

11/10/2020

Applications, Music and health, well-being, and therapy, Domain knowledge, Cognitive MIR, Human-centered MIR, User behavior analysis and mining, user modeling, MIR fundamentals and methodology, Metadata, tags, linked data, and semantic web, Musical features and properties, Musical affect, emotion, and mood, Musical style and genre

4:08

22/09/2020

Exploring clustering of bandits for online recommendation system

Liu Yang, Bo Liu, Leyu Lin and
Feng Xia, Kai Chen, Qiang Yang

affective computing, affective interface, theory of constructed emotion, computational creativity, emotion, poetry, generative networks

14:44