Extensive HCI research has investigated how to prevent and mitigate harassment in virtual
spaces, particularly by leveraging human-based and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based …

Social virtual reality (VR) will potentially change online communities, transforming how
people meet, interact, and socialise online. However, issues surrounding the growing threat …

We interviewed VR users (n= 25) about their experiences with harassment, abuse, and
discomfort in social YR. We find that users' definitions ofonline harassment'are subjective …

In immersive virtual reality (VR) environments, experiences of harassment can be
exacerbated by features such as synchronous voice chat, heightened feelings of presence …

Harassment has long been considered a severe social issue and a culturally contextualized
construct. More recently, understanding and mitigating emerging harassment in social …

Recent years have seen a rise in social virtual reality (VR) platforms that allow people to
interact in real-time through voice and gestures. The ephemeral nature of communication on …

Commercial social VR applications represent a diverse and evolving ecology with
competing models of what it means to be social in VR. Drawing from expert interviews, this …

The boom of commercial social virtual reality (VR) platforms in recent years has signaled the
growth and wide-spread adoption of consumer VR. Social VR platforms draw aspects from …

Purpose Despite the increasing interest in the metaverse—immersive three-dimensional
virtual worlds wherein personalized avatars interact with one another—little is known about …

Understanding how and why users reveal information about their self in online social spaces
and what they perceive as privacy online is a central research agenda in HCI. Drawing on …