Enabling Developers, Protecting Users: Investigating Harassment and Safety in VR

A Sabir, A Das - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05499, 2024 - arxiv.org
Virtual Reality (VR) has witnessed a rising issue of harassment, prompting the integration of
safety controls like muting and blocking in VR applications. However, the lack of …

Is Your Family Ready for VR? Ethical Concerns and Considerations in Children's VR Usage

Q Jin, S Kawas, S Arora, Y Yuan, S Yarosh - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a transformative technology to revolutionize education,
socialization, and entertainment. However, alongside its promising applications, concerns …

Determining the role of live streamers in mobile commerce: psychological effect of social presence and risk preference

X Chen, M Wu, Y Yang - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Mobile commerce (M-commerce), a part of e-commerce facilitated through
smartphones, and tablets, has evolved with the integration of live streaming as a …

Visual perspective and body ownership modulate vicarious somatosensory processing: A systematic review

MP Lisi, M Fusaro, SM Aglioti - 2023 - osf.io
We conducted a systematic review investigating the influence of visual perspective and body
ownership (BO) on vicarious somatosensation-the somatosensory resonance during the …

Springboard, Roadblock or “Crutch”?: How Transgender Users Leverage Voice Changers for Gender Presentation in Social Virtual Reality

KC Povinelli, Y Zhao - … IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Social virtual reality (VR) serves as a vital platform for transgender individuals to explore
their identities through avatars and foster personal connections within online communities …

Exploring Topic Modelling of User Reviews as a Monitoring Mechanism for Emergent Issues Within Social VR Communities

A Singh, J O'Hagan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.03994, 2024 - arxiv.org
Users of social virtual reality (VR) platforms often use user reviews to document incidents of
witnessed and/or experienced user harassment. However, at present, research has yet to be …

Novel Approaches for Understanding and Mitigating Emerging New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Workshop at CHI 2024

G Freeman, J Frommel, RL Mandryk… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
As online spaces facilitate increasingly immersive and embodied experiences, concerns
about how these emerging spaces may amplify and extend existing online harms and even …

[PDF][PDF] Enabling Developers, Protecting Users: Investigating Harassment and Safety in VR

SB Abhinaya, A Sabir, A Das - arXiv e-prints, 2024 - usenix.org
Virtual Reality (VR) has witnessed a rising issue of harassment, prompting the integration of
safety controls like muting and blocking in VR applications. However, the lack of …

Consensual XR: A Consent-Based Design Framework for Mitigating Harassment and Harm Against Marginalized Users in Social VR and AR

C Homayouni, D Zytko - 2023 IEEE International Symposium …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extended Reality (XR) technologies offer capacity for transformative social experience, but
also the potential to exacerbate the already-prevalent interpersonal harms in social VR …

The Prevalence of Cyber Harassment among Pre-university Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

OB Adenaike, OS Omotehinse - Psycho-Educational Research …, 2024 - perrjournal.com
This study identified the forms of Cyber Harassment experienced by pre-university students
of Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Also, this study investigated the common …