Disturbing the peace: Experiencing and mitigating emerging harassment in social virtual reality

G Freeman, S Zamanifard, D Maloney… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Harassment has long been considered a severe social issue and a culturally contextualized
construct. More recently, understanding and mitigating emerging harassment in social …

Advancing education through extended reality and internet of everything enabled metaverses: applications, challenges, and open issues

SK Jagatheesaperumal, K Ahmad… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metaverse has evolved as one of the popular research agenda that let users learn, socialize,
and collaborate in a networked 3-D immersive virtual world. Due to the rich multimedia …

Body, avatar, and me: The presentation and perception of self in social virtual reality

G Freeman, D Maloney - Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Self-presentation in online digital social spaces has been a long standing research interest
in HCI and CSCW. As online social spaces evolve towards more embodied digital …

Are we ready for metaverse? A measurement study of social virtual reality platforms

R Cheng, N Wu, M Varvello, S Chen… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Social virtual reality (VR) has the potential to gradually replace traditional online social
media, thanks to recent advances in consumer-grade VR devices and VR technology itself …

" Talking without a Voice" Understanding Non-verbal Communication in Social Virtual Reality

D Maloney, G Freeman, DY Wohn - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Exploring communication dynamics in digital social spaces such as massively multiplayer
online games and 2D/3D virtual worlds has been a long standing concern in HCI and …

Falling asleep together: What makes activities in social virtual reality meaningful to users

D Maloney, G Freeman - Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The increasingly popular social virtual reality (VR) is dramatically transforming how people
meet, interact, and socialize online. These immersive digital spaces blend aspects of the …

Proxemics and social interactions in an instrumented virtual reality workshop

J Williamson, J Li, V Vinayagamoorthy… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Virtual environments (VEs) can create collaborative and social spaces, which are
increasingly important in the face of remote work and travel reduction. Recent advances …

Digital body, identity and privacy in social virtual reality: A systematic review

J Lin, ME Latoschik - Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Social Virtual Reality (social VR or SVR) provides digital spaces for diverse human activities,
social interactions, and embodied face-to-face encounters. While our digital bodies in SVR …

My body, my avatar: How people perceive their avatars in social virtual reality

G Freeman, S Zamanifard, D Maloney… - Extended Abstracts of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The perception and experience of avatars has been critical to understand the social
dynamics in virtual environments, online gaming, and collaborative systems. How would …

Something personal from the metaverse: goals, topics, and contextual factors of self-disclosure in commercial social VR

P Sykownik, D Maloney, G Freeman… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Current Social VR literature provides limited insight on one of the most critical behaviors for
developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships: self-disclosure. Therefore, we …